A Death In The Gunj
Starring Vikrant Massey, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey, Gulshan Devaiah, Tillotama Shome, Om Puri, Tanuja
Written & Directed by Konkona Sen Sharma
It’s hard to define the mood of unrehearsed foreboding and a vague sense of doom that is built into Konkona Sen Sharma’s fragile yet ferocious family-on-a-disastrous-hillstation-holiday film.
If one didn’t know better, one would classify A Death In The Gunj as a whodunit. An Agatha Christie novel condensed into two hours of layered crisp crunchy but seemingly pointless conversations where families on a lazy vacation talk nonsense, play silly games evoking dead spirits (please!) while kids and pets run around in the large crumbling family home as the house-help grumbles about the sudden surge in domestic responsibilities.
It’s a familiar scenario for a tense exploration of fissures and fractures in the joint-family system. Satyajit Ray’s Aranyar Din Ratri, more recently...
Starring Vikrant Massey, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey, Gulshan Devaiah, Tillotama Shome, Om Puri, Tanuja
Written & Directed by Konkona Sen Sharma
It’s hard to define the mood of unrehearsed foreboding and a vague sense of doom that is built into Konkona Sen Sharma’s fragile yet ferocious family-on-a-disastrous-hillstation-holiday film.
If one didn’t know better, one would classify A Death In The Gunj as a whodunit. An Agatha Christie novel condensed into two hours of layered crisp crunchy but seemingly pointless conversations where families on a lazy vacation talk nonsense, play silly games evoking dead spirits (please!) while kids and pets run around in the large crumbling family home as the house-help grumbles about the sudden surge in domestic responsibilities.
It’s a familiar scenario for a tense exploration of fissures and fractures in the joint-family system. Satyajit Ray’s Aranyar Din Ratri, more recently...
- 6/3/2017
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Notice how Shabana Azmi’s bonding with her screen daughters has always been special. Not so much with her screen sons. Though she was par excellence in her bonding with little Makarand Shukla in Pravin Bhatt’s Bhavna and with Navin Chaudhary in John Schlesinger’s Madame Sousatzka, and though Shabana has expressed a desire to adopt Smita Patil’s son Prateik on screen it’s the screen-daughters with whom Shabana has bonded the most.
Konkona Sen Sharma who played Shabana’s daughter in her childhood in Picnic has been godmothered by Shabana ever since. Urmila Matondkar who played Shabana’s.
Konkona Sen Sharma who played Shabana’s daughter in her childhood in Picnic has been godmothered by Shabana ever since. Urmila Matondkar who played Shabana’s.
- 7/15/2009
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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