In post-constitutional India, the meeting points of two castes or of people from two historically opposed castes, has become a vantage point for understanding the process of society’s democratisation. For Deepak, a Dalit who has been historically kept segregated from Shaalu’s caste groups, Facebook offers a way of keeping her close. The accident as a negative deus ex machina works …
It would only be fair to call Banaras the lead protagonist of director Neeraj Ghaywan’s debut film Masaan. It’s a film set so firmly in the city that we feel the Ganga flowing beneath our feet, transporting us to this historical city on the cusp of change. Masaan is the story of a retired Sanskrit teacher Vidyadhar Pathak whose daughter …
by Meenakshi Shedde The French are obsessed with Benares, or Varanasi, where Neeraj Ghaywan’s debut feature Masaan is set. The film weaves three stories together — Devi Pathak has sex with her boyfriend in a hotel, resulting in a horrific experience that scars her for life; Deepak Chaudhary, a low caste Dom who cremates dead bodies by the ghats, has …
Cast: Richa Chadha, Vicky Kaushal, Shweta Tripathi, Sanjai Mishra Direction: Neeraj Ghaywan Ratings: Maybe it takes a fresh, unspoilt-by-Bollywood mind to capture the subtlest of hues of first love. Debutant director Neeraj Ghaywan's Masaan is emotionally devastating at one level, and even more hopeful at another. Devi and Piyush begin exploring each other's body; shy at first, ravenous thereafter, while …
