A boat ride. A storm. Quickly reminds of The Life of Pi. But no, this is based on Nouka Dubi , a Bengali short story by the master Rabindranath Tagore. I don’t know how good he was in the craft of writing short stories. But I am willing to bet on a Rituparno Ghosh movie. The movie starts being predictable with a guy with a “secret” story who is “forced” to marry sort of against his wishes. However, if this movie is about the usual predictable repressed sexuality of Indians, then this is not for me. Of course, these self-imposed restrictions remain to this day. The film fails to capture the chaos that is India. The pulls and pushes of Indian society which we have to live with today, I believe, were there in those days too. The overly-shy, teenage rural girl may not entirely be an artifact of the writer’s imagination, but it’s nevertheless un-endearing. The power outages when a storm comes … a reality in India since the early days of electricity. No. I don’t like this busines...
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