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Runtime: 122
Language: English | Tamil | Bengali | Hindi | Punjabi | Urdu
Country: India
Color: Colour
Description:
Meenakshi Iyer comes from a devout Hindu Brahmin family, purely vegetarian, who not only abstain from meat, but also food from restaurants, is the only child, married to Subramaniam Iyer from Tamil Nadu, has just given birth to a young son, Santhanam, and is visiting her mom. It is then they receive news that her mother-in-law is ill and wants Meenakshi back home in Calcutta. The parents arrange to drop her and her son off at the bus-stand, where they are introduced to a young photographer named Raja Chowdhury. Meenakshi's parents ask Raja to look after her, to which he agrees. The bus starts off, taking it's passengers through scenic hillside. The bus driver comes across a sign that the regular road is closed and he decides to take another route. After a few hours the bus comes to a stop as there is a line-up of vehicles ahead. The passengers are told that there has been a terrorist attack on a train resulting in the death of about 200 people. The region, predominately Hindu, believe that the attack was carried out by Muslims and there is retaliation by Hindu extremists. Curfew has to be imposed by the police to prevent further riots and casualties. It is then that a Police Jeep containing Police Officer Raj Arora drives by, asking all passengers to board their respective vehicles, as the area is under curfew. The passengers comply, shut the door, and wait for the traffic to clear. It is now dark and the silence is broken by men with fire-lit torches asking the driver to open the door of the bus, which he does. A group of extremists ask the passengers to identify themselves, and prove to them that they are Hindus, some have to take their pants off. Meenakshi identifies Raja as her husband, Mani. A Jew loudly claims that there are only two Muslims and points to Iqbal Ahmed Khan and his wife Najma. Iqbal is taken off the bus, a visibly upset Najma follows him, and they are killed. It is then the truth unfolds that Raja is not the young man's name but he is Jehangir - a Muslim. An upset Meenakshi must now come to terms with her Brahmin background, which prevents her from coming into contact, drinking water, sharing food, with even a non-Brahmin, leave alone a Muslim, especially now that she has identified him as her "husband" to protect him from being killed. The question remains will this "marriage" last or will Jehangir be discovered before they reach Calcutta.
IMDb Link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329393/
Director: Aparna Sen
Cast:
Rahul Bose ... Raja
Konkona Sen Sharma ... Mrs. Meenakshi S. Iyer (as Konkona Sensharma)
Bhisham Sahni ... Iqbal Ahmed Khan (as Bhisham Sahani)
Surekha Sikri ... Najma Ahmed Khan
Sunil Mukherjee
Anjan Dutt
Esha Chauhan
Kalyan Ray ... Voice overs
P.P. Bajaj ... Voice overs
Rahul Mulani ... Voice overs
Shernaz Patel ... Voice overs
Theron D'Souza ... Voice overs
Mona Ghosh Shetty ... Voice overs
Vijaya Subramanium ... Meenakshi's Mother
A.V. Iyenger ... Meenakshi's Father
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A Review from IMDB:
An Incredible Masterpiece
There are films which we see by accident and which we won't never forget. One of these films is Aparna Sens MR. AND MRS.IYER by one of the greatest Indian women filmmakers. At the first sight I wasn't sure at all, especially at the beginning (a collage of news on different cases of political violence). But some minutes later at the first part of the film - a forty minutes long bus travel through an incredible beautiful landscape, Aparna Sen proofs her cinematic brilliance. It is not only like she says the "little India" including a Jew, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims - but as well a masterfully play with time. All persons are connected with each other like musical themes. I just want to mention one little moment which demonstrates Sens sensibility. There is the young Tamil mother ( played by Konkona Sen Sharma) who is a bit troubled by her baby. Behind her there is a young probably fresh married couple kissing each other hidden under a blanket. One glance of her to them tells everything about her longings and not fulfilled dreams, the dream of a young woman who never have lived romantic love. The other one is when a young girl plays on her guitar a song which is about "Don't say a word". There is an old Muslim who complaint about the noisy young people before, but when his old wife is talking to him, he answered, he repeats almost like singing and probably in a very dreamy mood the same text of the young girl's song. In all respect, these two moments have the quality of the interactions between people in the films of Americas greatest film director John Ford or the genius of Japanese cinema Yasujiro Ozu. It is cinematic poetry in its purest form. And that are only a few moments from this outstanding masterpiece. In the last years, MR. AND MRS. IYER is with a recent masterpiece AMU by Shonali Bose one of the greatest films in the last years - and not only in India. And Aparna Sens masterpiece belongs to the great Road Movies in the history of cinema and evokes in the first third of the film another masterpiece of the Road movies called MR. THANK YOU by Hiroshi Shimizu. Beside all that this film is shot in wonderful images and extremely well played by Konkona Sen Sharma (one of the finest young actresses in international cinema) and by Rahul Bose as the liberal open-minded Muslim Raja. Almost all other characters you can't forget. Off-course this film deals with violence motivated by religious fanaticism and intolerance. But Sen needs only a few moments of violence to show that. Beside this signs of a very violent world, Sen put against some beautiful moments which I would like to call the cinematic idea of paradise. And indeed- this films belongs to my personal paradises of cinema - together with Ozus EARLY SUMMER, Dang Nhat Minhs.
