Shastry Viruddh Shastry

Don't know who is writing such dumb stories. Old grand parents don't want their own children to come home but somehow becomes decision maker to keep grand children. Things don't add up. Smaller things are portrayed parents in bad light. The arrangements are not rational or logical.

In reality the parents are supposed to be decision maker to see what they eat where they go to school etc. But the roles are flipped without any logical explanation. The grand parents are so selfish to keep grand children in village and keep opportunities away from small kid. All kids working in USA portrayed as greedy, no explanation given why?

What a gem of a movie on Netflix! Kudos to directors Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, who are known to have delivered many great films in the Bengali film industry. Shastry Virudhh Shastry, a remake of Bengali film Posto, is bound to touch a chord with those dealing with modern-day parenting. There are many Indian households where grandparents pay an active role in raising children, while the parents are slogging it off to win bread for the family. This particular tale is about what happens when these parents decide to take the child with them abroad. By now, the grandparents' world has already started revolving around the child. The matter leads to court and despite living in the same house, the parents and the grandparents fight it out legally. An innocent film that is rooted in reality, Shastry Virudhh Shastry is a must-watch this season!

What started as a great, relatable family drama, turned out to be a farce towards the end of the film by the filmmakers. The film showed the grandfather to be a manipulative man, who harmed and killed his first son, turned the second son into a sissy who could not stand upto his father and then kidnapped his grandchild to alleviate his own guilt at age 70 and fulfil his empty life and sadness. The filmmakers did a disservice to the child yaman by having the kidnapped child choose between his own parents and the grandparents, and end the film by having the child be in the company of the manipulative grandfather. You di not send a child to a criminal. Period. Its totally unfair fir a child to be used as a replacement.

If you hadn't watched original bengali movie 'Posto' then this is your time to watch one of the must watch movies about family bonding and relationship centered around a small child who is heart of all.

The story narration and script is one of the best I have come across and the acting by various actors is cherry on the top.

Movie has plenty of emotional areas with touch of joy,happiness,sadness which will make you feel the same .

The movie is completely centered around a family and will have too much resemblance to our day to day life and activities.

I would like to give 7.5 stars to this movie and is recommended must watch.

It's a very good story, narrative, the first two-thirds of it are really good, the story developed well, but it didn't pack the punch that it had the potential for. A lot of things were unrealistic, like the father and son having a case against each other, yet sitting together and eating. The ending was also weird, very strange. Also, why couldn't they all stay together? They never convinced guruji to come with them, there are a lot of unexplainable things in the story. But the acting was good, by a lot of actors, Paresh Rawal was brilliant as always. The movie made me cry at one point, but again, it had a lot of potential and could have been much much better. Sad it didn't end the way or carry the potential it had till the end.