From Steven Holden in The New York Times:
“Praying With Anger” is a standard male rites-of-passage film with one fascinating difference: Dev Raman (M. Night Shyamalan), a hotheaded exchange student who endures assorted trials on his way to responsible manhood, is an American-born Indian who goes all the way to Madras to grow up.

The film, which opens today at the Village East, is the cinematic debut of Mr. Shyamalan, a 22-year-old director, who wrote and produced the movie in which he also plays the leading role. Sumptuously photographed on location in Madras, it offers a vision of contemporary life strikingly different from that shown in most films set in modern India, which tend to dwell on the mystical and the exotic.

If “Praying With Anger” is an astonishingly accomplished movie for such a young director, it is also emotionally immature. Dev, whom one might reasonably assume to be a directorial alter ego, churns with inchoate longings and hostilities that the story resolves far too neatly. At moments of revelation, the screenplay lapses into vague, sentimental hyperbole about learning “respect” and the sense of being “home.”

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