Aritra Karak

i cannot describe how and what i feel after watching this movie. I dont think i've cried this much after watching any movie in the past. Its just a roller coast ride of emotions. the first half of the movie i felt as if i had a huge knot in my heart, unable to dissipate it, remove it. this knot was so tight, i had to pause the movie several times to just go out and get some fresh air. I couldn't handle. It was a feeling of uneasiness, of sadness, of pain. I wanted the two to be together but the dynamics of the society then was portrayed so subtly, it was gut wrenching.. but later, even when the knot disappeared, it transformed into a feeling of utter pain, longing. I was taken back to those days, days long long before I was even born, and I thought to myself... So many beautiful souls missed out.. missed out at having lived a life where they could love whoever they wanted. As I write this, I'm still sobbing, at the fact that I now live in a different world.. something many could only wish for. But what I absolutely love about this film is that it doesn't feel old. It is as much a film about 30 years ago as it is a film about today. We are never really taken back to, rather aggressively, to 1987. Moreover, later on in the film, the timeline becomes so confusing that we don't even think about it anymore. And that, subconsciously, makes us think we are witnessing something from the present. Only after the film finished that i realized upon looking back, why they couldn't be together. And that is what this film has accomplished. Brilliant movie. Anybody who hasn't cried in a while and wants an excuse to do so, WATCH THIS MOVIE.