Ghawre Bairey Aaj

To be honest i expected more from this movie especially after watching satijat rays Version. Its difficult to describe it, but his version felt more ,, complete''. This movie was somehow unrealistic, like which upper caste male (brahman in this case)decides to marry a former servant from the dalit caste? apart from that its highely critical that a tribal girl is shown as,,tamed'' and brahmanized and pictured as a good will project of nikhels mother and its morally questionable from nikhils side to marry a Dalit to highlight his liberal worldview. i mean come on. Maybe thats the reason i couldnt connect to the characters at all, the whole movie felt like out of reality and addressed in my eyes a certain ,, intellectual'' group ( which might not be bad, but the movies topic is more than relevant today in indians society, and should be presented to a wider audience)and aparna sen was able to reach a wider publicum with mr&mrs iyer, which also dealed with a similar topic. Another point i want to adress is the flat character development of sandip, he is shown as the bad guy driven only by greed for power and immorality. In rays version he appeared far more nuanced ,this also applies to nikhils character. And lastly the death of the muslim boy, which leads to a change in the thinking of his hindu nationalistic friend and adjoining vigils, feels rushed and out of place. It appears like a cheap solution to finish quickly the movie.Apart from this weaknesses it was a decent movie, addressing an important issue.

The movie started with an excellent setting where a progressive and kind-hearted family adopted an orphan girl and the adopted mother treated her like their own girl. As usual Aparna Sen skillfully directed every scene where love, friendship, politics, ideologies, and conflicts and tensions among these various aspects of life and society climaxed up and down perfectly to offer a heart-touching and satisfying experience. The movie is both entertaining and spiritually satisfying.

What happened to Aparna Sen? My hopes were set high by the choice of the relevant political issues and, of course, the fact that this is an adaptation of the fascinating Tagore novel. Why did you need to ruin the novel by doing this? The film throws away its potentials through undeveloped, unnecessary subplots. And the actress is just not up to the mark. A film on such a burning issue ought to have been much more responsible. Et tu, Aparna!

I did not read the original novel,but suspect it had lots of insight. Allowing that the historic background has been altered for me as an outsider the politics was interesting--modern day problem is containing hate. I was impressed with th three main actors--only conscious of having seen one other Aparna Sen film she dealt with the emotions very well. Also thought the cinematography was subtle and as with the background music helped set mood. Very good.

Ghawre Baire Aaj is an excellent dramatic creation of Aparna Sen..... it is one of the best scribble of Aparna Sen....each and every character and the persons ( Nikhilesh Chowdhury, Brinda Chowdhury and Sandip Jha and else.. meaningly Anirban Bhattachrya, Tuhina Das and Jisshu U Sengupta and more..) in this movie kept their rummy dispotion evidences. The base of the story fiercely shows the political and intestine familiar story of almost evry relationships and the bondings..After all this movie will give an unprecedented perception to each person.... :)