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Jul 24, 2015 · Ghaywan and Grover do not justify Devi’s behaviour with an emotional love story, which makes Masaan an honest statement about the dilemma of youth trapped in small-town, moral hypocrisy. While Devi and her father are blackmailed by Inspector Misra (Bhagwan Tiwari), Devi is racked with personal guilt and largely unconcerned by her reputation.
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Jul 24, 2015 · For a maiden venture, Ghaywan's "Masaan", is a sensitively handled, honest film with some intrepid truths about small towns in India, giving you an insight into the mind of the internet-savvy youth.
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On the contrary, the film opens with Richa Chadha’s character watching pornography in her room, which paradoxically eliminates any essence of ‘holiness’ which the viewers might have come to expect. The middle-class setting of her place is further highlighted in the next scene. As Devi leaves her house, a man in his undershirt brushing his teeth fro...
Their pangs of first love are explored in a montage like sequence in the film. The song “Tu Kisi Rail Si Guzarti Hai” (Grover’s spin-off of Dushyant Kumar’s poem) plays, as Deepak and Shaalu steal glances during the Durga-Pooja fair. Suddenly, the scene cuts to Deepak taking a printout of Shaalu’s Facebook profile and admiring it in the solitude of...
As discussed above, the film establishes Shaalu as a starry-eyed romantic individual, who is soon about to be exhumed in the harsh flames of life. Further, the brilliant casting and performance of Shweta Tripathi, who the viewers might have best remembered from the Disney show Kya ‘Mast’ Hai Life(How Cool Is Life), add a meta-textual presence to th...
Traditionally in films (especially romance dramas), bonfires or fireplace usually anticipate a scene of sexual lovemaking (remember the campfire scene in Brokeback Mountain (2005), the brilliant exchange between the leads in the recent A Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), the iconic romantic sequence in the song “Roop Tera Mastana” from Aradhna (19...
Jul 15, 2015 · The flux its protagonists go through reflects the ongoing flux around us, with socially expected roles of caste and gender acting as barriers. Advertisement. Written by Varun Grover, Masaan mainly ...
Jul 24, 2015 · You might say that my simplistic, impressionable non-filmy mind is blown away by watching Neeraj Ghaywan's brilliant, brilliant Masaan, which gets the pulse of small-town India as no other I have ...
Jul 24, 2015 · Through “Masaan”, Ghaywan wanted to revive the “innocence” of small-town romance seen in Bollywood oldies like “Nadiya Ke Paar”. Advertisement He also made a conscious decision to show small cities in a “different light” and narrate how Varanasi is evolving instead of “exoticising” the famed ancient city situated along the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh .
Masaan (transl. 'Crematorium'; also known as Fly Away Solo in English) is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language independent drama film starring Richa Chadda and Vicky Kaushal in lead roles. It is Kaushal's debut Hindi film, and also the directorial debut of Neeraj Ghaywan .
