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- It is set in Banaras, but feels like it could be the story of any other place in contemporary India, and not just of a small town. The flux its protagonists go through reflects the ongoing flux around us, with socially expected roles of caste and gender acting as barriers.
www.dailyo.in › arts › masaan-cannes-2015-neeraj-ghaywan-richa-chadha-gender-caste-dom-community-banaras-4996How Masaan lights up the pyre of India's caste and gender ...
Jul 24, 2015 · Both Kaushal and Tiwari deliver wonderfully realistic portrayals of two small-town kids. Watch out for the simple exchange when she says hurriedly “bye-bye” and he says, equally fast, “hello-hello” in a bid to take their budding relationship to the next level.
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Jul 24, 2015 · Souls are said to be liberated in Kashi; and ‘masaan’ (the colloquial local word for ‘shamshaan’) perfectly captures the unique character of a town which has been wrestling with life and death for centuries.
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On the contrary, the film opens with Richa Chadha’s character watching pornography in her room, which paradoxically eliminates any essence of ‘holiness’ which the viewers might have come to expect. The middle-class setting of her place is further highlighted in the next scene. As Devi leaves her house, a man in his undershirt brushing his teeth fro...
Their pangs of first love are explored in a montage like sequence in the film. The song “Tu Kisi Rail Si Guzarti Hai” (Grover’s spin-off of Dushyant Kumar’s poem) plays, as Deepak and Shaalu steal glances during the Durga-Pooja fair. Suddenly, the scene cuts to Deepak taking a printout of Shaalu’s Facebook profile and admiring it in the solitude of...
As discussed above, the film establishes Shaalu as a starry-eyed romantic individual, who is soon about to be exhumed in the harsh flames of life. Further, the brilliant casting and performance of Shweta Tripathi, who the viewers might have best remembered from the Disney show Kya ‘Mast’ Hai Life(How Cool Is Life), add a meta-textual presence to th...
Traditionally in films (especially romance dramas), bonfires or fireplace usually anticipate a scene of sexual lovemaking (remember the campfire scene in Brokeback Mountain (2005), the brilliant exchange between the leads in the recent A Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), the iconic romantic sequence in the song “Roop Tera Mastana” from Aradhna (19...
Masaan (transl. 'Crematorium'; also known as Fly Away Solo in English) is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language independent drama film starring Richa Chadda and Vicky Kaushal in lead roles. It is Kaushal's debut Hindi film, and also the directorial debut of Neeraj Ghaywan.
Jul 24, 2015 · For a maiden venture, Ghaywan's "Masaan", is a sensitively handled, honest film with some intrepid truths about small towns in India, giving you an insight into the mind of the internet-savvy...
Jul 21, 2015 · Masaan deals with a few small town lives, and how they change when big cities cast their spell on the people. Here are the five things you should know about Neeraj Ghaywan's Masaan.
Varanasi, like most of India’s small towns, embodies the dichotomy of tradition and modernity. Even as its residents are embracing the internet and Facebook, its society is plagued by casteism, patriarchy and corruption.
