2015 · drama · romance
Masaan (2015)
Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan1h 49m2015
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
Our read: Masaan (2015) (2015) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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