Today morning, I watched the movie- Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. Actually someone provoked me to watch it. As usual, I just googled it to its wiki page and IMDb. IMDb gave it 7.9 (a pretty good for Hindi movie, which is always underestimated when compared with Hollywood, in rating), which was the only enough reason to watch it. Moreover, user reviews were also telling it "a must watch movie". Also, the story line didn't seem like the typical good going Hindi movie. Therefore, I downloaded it and watched it at 04:00 AM...ya its in the morning.
Movie was all about a bus journey, where bus was carrying the people of different religions and ethnics of India. Director Aparna Sen plotted the whole story around the Jahangir (a Muslim guy) and Mrs. Minakshi Iyer (a pure Tamil Brahmin). By putting the passengers from different age group, Sen also tried to focus on generation's thought process. In fact, in movie, one very old guy was complaining on the today's dress culture by comparing it from their times that he barely saw his wife's hand on his marriage. As movie proceeds, bus got stuck in a curfew. Later passengers came to know about happening of all this curfew because of the riot going on between Hindu and Muslim. A mob of their respective religion were killing the people and burning the villages of anti- religion. In-between, Minakshi came to know Jahangir is a Muslim. Being a hypo typical Brahmin girl, she hated him first, but later saved his life saying him as her husband and tagged him with the name "Mani". If she hated him, then why she saved his life?........Answer to this question may be because Jahangir helped him before this incident or she wants someone to protect her and her child or might be because of humanity. Whatever it was, afterward this, the whole bus was knowing them as Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. Jahangir was shown as an open-minded person opposing to the Minakshi who was always highly concerned about the caste-ism. But, as the story proceeds, she started feeling all this caste-ism a crap and transformed herself into Jahangir's personality. Later both fall in love but don't disclose their feelings except Minakshi saying Jahangir as Mr. Iyer.
And ya one more thing- mind the pronunciation here: Its Meenakshi and not Minakshi as told by Meenakshi in the movie :)
Well, how much I liked it? ..... Answer is in the rating which I'll give it 7 out of 10. Why I gave 7 because movie was a good going and I never felt bored. Apart from this, there was something in the movie which was not ordinary. I can't exactly name it but it may be the kinda different script, unusual and undefined relationship which is itself not sure about its name. Why I deducted 3 because it didn't touch my emotion which I generally expect from movie or may be I overestimated it before watching it.
Movie was all about a bus journey, where bus was carrying the people of different religions and ethnics of India. Director Aparna Sen plotted the whole story around the Jahangir (a Muslim guy) and Mrs. Minakshi Iyer (a pure Tamil Brahmin). By putting the passengers from different age group, Sen also tried to focus on generation's thought process. In fact, in movie, one very old guy was complaining on the today's dress culture by comparing it from their times that he barely saw his wife's hand on his marriage. As movie proceeds, bus got stuck in a curfew. Later passengers came to know about happening of all this curfew because of the riot going on between Hindu and Muslim. A mob of their respective religion were killing the people and burning the villages of anti- religion. In-between, Minakshi came to know Jahangir is a Muslim. Being a hypo typical Brahmin girl, she hated him first, but later saved his life saying him as her husband and tagged him with the name "Mani". If she hated him, then why she saved his life?........Answer to this question may be because Jahangir helped him before this incident or she wants someone to protect her and her child or might be because of humanity. Whatever it was, afterward this, the whole bus was knowing them as Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. Jahangir was shown as an open-minded person opposing to the Minakshi who was always highly concerned about the caste-ism. But, as the story proceeds, she started feeling all this caste-ism a crap and transformed herself into Jahangir's personality. Later both fall in love but don't disclose their feelings except Minakshi saying Jahangir as Mr. Iyer.
And ya one more thing- mind the pronunciation here: Its Meenakshi and not Minakshi as told by Meenakshi in the movie :)
Well, how much I liked it? ..... Answer is in the rating which I'll give it 7 out of 10. Why I gave 7 because movie was a good going and I never felt bored. Apart from this, there was something in the movie which was not ordinary. I can't exactly name it but it may be the kinda different script, unusual and undefined relationship which is itself not sure about its name. Why I deducted 3 because it didn't touch my emotion which I generally expect from movie or may be I overestimated it before watching it.