When I watched this movie, I felt an impulsive desire to talk about it, instantly. Unable to find someone who would listen, I wrote my first movie review. I posted it a long time back at mouthshut. Here goes the post:
Guess what. I have watched the movie just now in my computer since I didn’t do what I was supposed to in Friday noon, and so, was feeling like killing time. Thats why I watched this movie. But did I kill my time? Far from it. I just saw a movie which I should have seen long back. It has been two years since its release.
The film isnt your regular Bollywood fare – no nachna gana and purposeless rona dhona or dishoom dishoom. Rather, it churns usual emotions in some unsual times and is set at unsual backdrop. The simultaneity of sighs and groans presents the most effective picture. The scenes range from lyrical(in the abandoned forest guest house) to rioteering savagery. The most haunting scene is when Raja (Rahul Bose)finds the dentures of a slaughtered old man by the riverbed where others are brushing their teeth.
Konkona’s eyes tell a thousand stories and so does Rahul Bose’s face. Meenakshi’s (Konkona Sensharma) coming of age from an orthodox Tamil Brahmin to a normal being is pictured on celluloid. She metamorphoses from a person disliking even the touch of a Muslim to one who ’almost loves’ the Muslim guy. Sequences between a married woman and her companion really touches the softest corner of your heart.
Aparna Sen(Writer-Director) mocks at our educated people when they believe in the caste system. Meenakshi, a PG in Physics, and her Father-in-Law, and endocrinologist, are firm believers in the evil of caste. The Director takes her two protagonists only as far as they can go. They take each others leave, reluctantly, when Meenakshi’s husband comes to the station to receive her. The scene lefts us feeling bereft, yet somehow wiser human beings.
[...] Original post by Kalyan Banerjee [...]
Konkona’s eyes tell a thousand stories and so does Rahul Bose’s face- that’s a beautiful description of this movie. I watched this movie some time back and I think the theme,direction and performances were just class apart. The movie exemplifies great cinema – certainly what we need more of.
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thanku very nhice
I watched the movie a long time back , but after going thru your post , I feel like watching it once more. It’s really too good a movie and may be one of my mst favorite one.
The best scene that I liked was when Rahul Bose was telling Konkona about that tree house in the midst of a forest and they were wishing to go there for their honeymoon. The expression on both there faces was just unbelievable.
Just one more comment about you post . As Aparna Sen had done justice to the film,I believe you could have written the post some how better to give justice to your writing skill.
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One of my favorite movies of all times and Konkona’s best performance yet. I had to own the DVD and watch it from time to time. In fact I think I own all of Aparna Sen’s movies. I think she is a better director than she was an actress.
Good One and Thanks for the info
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hey nice blog dude,i found myself agreeing with u on quite a few things…..long time back, sometime in 2006 u had left a comment and an invitation on my blog to reveiw urs…never found time back then but now am glad i chkd urs
I watched this movie again a couple of days back and found it just as emotionally stirring as I’d found it the first time. In fact, the experience of watching the movie this time around was better as I was not on the edge all the time waiting for some incidents of rape or lynching. I think the social commentary in this movie is much more effective because it is unmarred by extremely violent incidents on camera. I also liked the way the romance is portrayed well enough to be tangible but not too heavy or sensual. Konkona Sen Sharma is one of my favorite actors and she was luminous in this movie. But I really liked Rahul Bose’ portrayal of Raja Choudhary. He is understated and quiet and calm and sensitive. He is satisfied with his life, loves his work, does not give lectures on morality or free spirit, makes no demands or expresses any sort of annoyance at the worst of times. He is as happy interacting with a traditional saree clad woman as he would have been with a girl in a mini skirt.