Young Olivia suffers from night terror since her mother passed away and several nannies have been changed since then because they couldn’t comfort her. Rabia is an illegal immigrant seeking job. From a close contact, she gets a job and becomes Olivia’s nanny. Therefore, Rabia and Olivia is a story of two people from different worlds who have been brought to each other by fate and grow a bond like a mother and a daughter.
Watching this film was like some bunch of brown dudes in a foreign country raising the funds in the community, mosques, and churches to finance a film about mutual respect. And in that money, they hire some non-professional low-profile actors. I guess more than half of the collected funds were allocated to sign a well-known actor to raise awareness because I recognized only one artist and she was Sheeba Chaddha and that too in a brief role.
See, I recognize compassion in the story but such plots are not meant for a feature film length. The right platform is the shorter length. I felt I was watching the longest version or some director’s cut of a short film. The aesthetics were below-par with level-1 video effects and most of the artists showing terrible skills of acting.
I appreciate the effort but Rabia and Olivia is like some passion project of a community that they will remember after a couple of decades at some party as a generous effort.
RATING 2/10
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Sami Naik | Film Critic 