“Go.”

From Skater Girl.

In the small Indian village of Khempur, young Prerna (Rachel Saanchita Gupta) spends her time helping her parents and making sure her younger brother, Ankush (Shafin Patel), makes it to the school she often can’t attend. When the half-Indian Jessica (Amrit Maghera) arrives from London, seeking closure and answers from her late father’s childhood home, she is unsure what she is really expecting to happen over the next two weeks. While Vikram (Ankit Yadav), the owner of the small hotel where she is staying is glad for Jessica’s visit, most of the village is unimpressed with her presence. Although when Ankush accidentally hits Jessica with a mud ball, the woman finds unexpected friends with Prerna and her brother. When Jessica sees Ankush playing with his bearing cart it reminds her of a skateboard and causes her to reach out to her skateboarding friend, Erick (Jonathan Readwin), who is teaching in a nearby part of India. What starts as showing a few skateboarding videos soon morphs into Erick teaching Prerna, Ankush, and their friends how to ride his board. As the kids fall in love with skateboarding, especially Prerna, Jessica buys them all skateboards and Khempur is soon overrun with skateboarding kids and angry adults. Realizing that the kids need a special place, Jessica and Vikram begin seeking a location to turn into a skate park. Unable to gain approval, land, or funding by any of the government agencies, Jessica reaches out to the region’s queen (Waheeda Rehman) for permission to use a small piece of her land to create the region’s first skate park. When the queen grants Jessica the land, she and Erick begin developing the skate park and preparing for the national competition that will be held there when the park opens. Prerna thrives when skateboarding, but her father’s disapproval soon places her against impossible odds and ancient traditions.

This movie is both heartbreaking and inspiring, and will easily captivate viewers. Gupta does well to carry her leading role both in the skateboarding and the tender scenes. While the ending is not picture perfect, Skater Girl does well to realistically share the inspiring struggles that female skateboarders in India face each day.

| Rated: PG | Running Time: 108 minutes |Genre: drama/sports|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 0 of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 0 of 10

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