With Mother Teresa & Me, Swiss‑Indian filmmaker Kamal Musale tells the story of two resolute women in India, one in the past and the other in the present. Colors and melodies — Shot largely in India on the scale of a major production, the film admirably recreates the atmosphere of the 1950s, when the country was beset by social unrest that led to a terrible famine. The film also owes much to the precision of tone achieved by its cast and to its formal choices. Above all, the colors help bring the two women closer together, even though they are far apart in time and space: Mother Teresa first appears in black and white and the young woman in color, and at the end the tones merge into pastels, connecting the two figures in a surprising way. Alongside this meticulous visual aesthetic, the music also plays an important role, accompanying Kavita in particular.