Ribbon

This movie is a reality check - deals with all major issues in a married life. A newly married couple find out that you need more ingredients than just love to fuel a marriage. And their relationship starts falling apart by the burden of their work and parenthood. The writing is not superb( ending could have been better ) but it's cruel and real and it's almost impossible for anyone to not relate. It's more from the perspective of the mother and how difficult it is for a working lady to handle a baby while working and all that she has to face at the workplace. So a must watch for girls.

Sumeet Vyas and Kalki Koechlin have done tremendous work and it's good watch( if you are ready to face the reality).

This kind of Cinema is being missed. I recalled Boyhood. This is so real and aptly dramatized. Kalki and Sumeet both did an amazing work. Their emotions, their struggles can be felt. That little one year old girl was also superb. I specially loved the climax and how all that made sense to title this film as "Ribbon".

A good low budget gem. Has a documentary feel to it, while intimately looking at a couple's life. You feel you are living with them and that's some achievement. Kalki is a good actress and does her part well but seemed miscast because of her ethnicity for a film that's so close to being real. I did not get why the title is Ribbon though.

Kalki - Though she is already one of my favourites, but I used to think that she can only do justice with a character that is outgoing, modern, free-spirited, carefree, super energetic, youthful and somewhat irresponsible but this movie, to a happy surprise, broke that myth in my head. Her character in this movie is an ambitious woman but at the same time is a loving mother who cares a lot about her family and is trying hard to balance the responsibilities of a mother, a wife, a daughter and her career. Kalki perfectly fitted in the character.

Sumeet - I've always seen him in supporting roles and all I could see was that, he is not a bad actor but in this movie he had one of the two lead roles and he was brilliant in his performance! After this movie, he is a new name added in my list of good actors.

What put me terribly off is the concocted diversity of issues that a couple face in Rakhee Sandilya's Ribbon, a sweet little film that turns sour right when you are enjoying it. But that's exactly the whole point of showcasing what a couple transforming into a nuclear family face in a metro city in India. From unabashed gender discrimination at work to familial tiffs to issues with the functioning of a household, Ribbon has it all, topped with a violent performance by Kalki Koechlin and an equally competing one by Sumeet Vyas. Parenthood hits them like a typhoon in the US and all that follows is what I like to call new-age problems that do not have solutions. Along with fitting music and numbing dialogues by Raghav Dutt, director Sandilya takes her viewers on a journey that is relatable and nonchalant, eventually taking them to the end of a cliff and threatening that she will push. Ribbon is heartbreaking but it does not fool its audience. It has its flaws - with the major one being convolution - but then indie films have stories to tell. With it with your partner and you will take away a thing or two. TN.