The Least of These The Graham Staines Story movie review: A wasted opportunity

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The Least of These: The Graham Staines Story movie review The Least of These: The Graham Staines Story movie review: This should have been an important film, given our hate-filled times.

The Least of These: The Graham Staines Story movie cast: Sharman Joshi, Stephen Baldwin, Prakash Belawadi
The Least of These: The Graham Staines Story movie director: Aneesh Daniel
The Least of These: The Graham Staines Story movie rating: Two stars

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One of the biggest rents in the fabric of India was the horrific killing of Graham Staines and his two young sons in January, 1999.

Done right, a film on the barbaric crime should have functioned as an act of setting to rights, as well as a cautionary tale. The Least Of These is simply not done well enough, to achieve either of these things.

Manav (Joshi) is a rookie journalist who is determined to please his boss, whose only brief is to nail Graham Staines (Baldwin), the local missionary who lives a life of compassion, on a charge of forced conversion.

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We see our intrepid journo sneaking up on Staines and his happy family– wife and three children–as they go about keeping their leprosy home going by sheer dint of will and goodwill. He is to be found creeping up on what he thinks is a forced coRead More – Source

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