This film could have been the best film coming out of Bollywood in a long time but it's not, and it's no less than a good film. Conveying a message that wasn't conveyed and shown from this perspective before in Indian films. Hopefully Norway will work on some of their policies and respect other foreign cultures and understand the differences...
Rani Mukherji delivers one of her best performances till date, if not the best. Choosing challenging characters in last few years which she can do justice by enacting them with emotions, expressions, body language, embracing her Bengali identity or voice or look perfectly in a different way than those who typically use it - for their characters chubby-Bengali-matured-woman look, stereotypically sexual driven Boudis, or disrespectful to own culture by wearing saree in an exposed fashion.
The film has many flaws but yet manages to connect with you, like the biggest turn off is the Dialogues. It's so bad, in real life Bengalis don't use Hindi, Bengali & English all at once to communicate amongst families. The people I've seen or known from West Bengal or Kolkata mostly use Bengali or English, hardly any Hindi and when it's established properly that the both husband & wife are Bengalis from West Bengal, then at least they don't need Hindi when they communicate between themselves or in their family. This cocktail of languages is so bad, that it feels like watching a TV Serial whenever they're switching between languages - one line in Bangla then two lines in Hindi with few words in English in between. This forcefulness of making it "Indian" wasn't necessary, it's awkward and weird. Pick one language and stick to that, why make a cocktail of all the languages! Should have picked Hindi, even though Rani with her Bangla could have easily executed the film perfectly. This switching of languages even affects Rani's performances, at least to me it makes her performance melodramatic. And Editing is one more department where the film doesn't do justice. The climax specially those last 20 mins is just so heartwarming, emotionally touching you deep. Jim Sarbh owns it. And since the language in the courtroom sequence is only in one language it doesn't feel irritating and draws your full attention.
It's no waste of money, worthy of your time & attention, didn't know about Sagarika Chakraborty and her tragic story, now I know. And I Respect.
Rani Mukherji delivers one of her best performances till date, if not the best. Choosing challenging characters in last few years which she can do justice by enacting them with emotions, expressions, body language, embracing her Bengali identity or voice or look perfectly in a different way than those who typically use it - for their characters chubby-Bengali-matured-woman look, stereotypically sexual driven Boudis, or disrespectful to own culture by wearing saree in an exposed fashion.
The film has many flaws but yet manages to connect with you, like the biggest turn off is the Dialogues. It's so bad, in real life Bengalis don't use Hindi, Bengali & English all at once to communicate amongst families. The people I've seen or known from West Bengal or Kolkata mostly use Bengali or English, hardly any Hindi and when it's established properly that the both husband & wife are Bengalis from West Bengal, then at least they don't need Hindi when they communicate between themselves or in their family. This cocktail of languages is so bad, that it feels like watching a TV Serial whenever they're switching between languages - one line in Bangla then two lines in Hindi with few words in English in between. This forcefulness of making it "Indian" wasn't necessary, it's awkward and weird. Pick one language and stick to that, why make a cocktail of all the languages! Should have picked Hindi, even though Rani with her Bangla could have easily executed the film perfectly. This switching of languages even affects Rani's performances, at least to me it makes her performance melodramatic. And Editing is one more department where the film doesn't do justice. The climax specially those last 20 mins is just so heartwarming, emotionally touching you deep. Jim Sarbh owns it. And since the language in the courtroom sequence is only in one language it doesn't feel irritating and draws your full attention.
It's no waste of money, worthy of your time & attention, didn't know about Sagarika Chakraborty and her tragic story, now I know. And I Respect.