Indian film director Praveen Morchhale’s film 'Barefoot to Goa' draws a picture of real rural India in contrast to the busy urban middle class India.
The film focuses on the dismantling family structure in India and the losing family ties.
As reviewer Jugu Abraham says, it is a tale of two school kids who decide to visit their ailing grandmother in Goa without the knowledge of their parents.
It is a road movie with a difference. The kids get on trains without tickets and get off trains without any plan of their next mode of transport to their destination.
Director Morchhale is not interested in pre-occupying the viewer with details such as their likely encounter with the ticket inspector — he is interested in moving forward with the journey to Goa, train or no train.
'Barefoot to Goa' can be described as a children’s film as the main characters that drive the film are two school kids.
Yet the film grapples with issues that are larger than those of small school kids—it deals with family relationships (loss of ties with parents after marriage, lack of empathy towards the old, the bonds of small townsfolk, the valuation of a parent’s role by those who miss out on a loving, caring parent).