Dosar

Year : 2006
Language : Bengali
Country : India
Director : Rituparno Ghosh

Rituparno Ghosh is undoubtedly among the top 3 cinema makers from India among his contemporary ones, a master storyteller and a great screenplay writer. Dosar is his best movie that I have seen till date. Handling the subject of feminism in a creative work like cinema or book, in my opinion is a daunting task even for an intellectual of high calibre. Often the story writers get carried away by the urge to get aggresive and "women liberty means family murder (or man bashing)" kind of loose ends, here's where Rituparno comes with his deep understanding of the complexities of relationship, an anti patriarchal view added with the emotional dimension of humans. Dosar is an astounding real portrayal of a husband-wife relationships that is marred by infidelity, simple and an old subject but with a completely different story. Acting of Konkana was as always superb. A must watch movie.

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Rock On

Am so happy that I watched this movie. Revived the "Dil Chahta Hai" memories... Wonderful acting and super wonderful music... I think Bollywood should stick to movies like this : No story, nice music and great acting. Whenever the mainstream directors muddle with their lesson preaching, emotional story and cheap comedy stunts, they start stinking... Whoa after such a long time I enjoyed every bit of a mainstream bollywood stuff.

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