Director: Aparna SenLanguage: English / Hindi / Tamil / Bengali
Courtesy: NetFlix
Synopsis: Did you read the poster - "emotions under curfew" - that speaks for itself.
Mrs. Iyer is traveling by bus to Calcutta to be with her husband, but a flare-up between Hindus and Muslim extremists closes the roads, and a curfew descends. While the passengers are trapped on the bus, a gang of Hindus boards to ferret out any Muslims. Mrs. Iyer was brought up to believe that Muslims were inferior, but during the journey, she comes to realize that it's who a person is, not their religions, that's the defining factor. Also, the film is a tribute to deeply felt and sincere love, a love that is probably on a different level and more touching and sometimes questionable than many love / relationship stories I've seen before.
I have watched this movie a couple times as the concept though beautiful, has disturbed me a lot. I could not quite relate to Mrs Iyers emotional feeling as a married woman with a child for another man, a stranger she just meets on the bus.
It is not until recently that this movie actually got me thinking about the difference between Love and Marriage. I have always believed that the two go together. Well that is how I have been brought up you see. There is no marriage without Love and affection, but I have strong reasons and experience to believe that they are two separate identities. Love is an EMOTION, where as marriage is just an ACTION most of us do to either label this emotion or to fit into society. Not every one who is in Love with a person is happily married or even married period, and not everyone who is married to someone is necessarily in Love. Most of us perform this "action" mainly for "emotional security", when unfortunately it comes with no such warranty.....
Sorry I got a little carried away......... this is a topic for debate and the less I speak the better for all of us.
Courtesy: NetFlix
Synopsis: Did you read the poster - "emotions under curfew" - that speaks for itself.
Mrs. Iyer is traveling by bus to Calcutta to be with her husband, but a flare-up between Hindus and Muslim extremists closes the roads, and a curfew descends. While the passengers are trapped on the bus, a gang of Hindus boards to ferret out any Muslims. Mrs. Iyer was brought up to believe that Muslims were inferior, but during the journey, she comes to realize that it's who a person is, not their religions, that's the defining factor. Also, the film is a tribute to deeply felt and sincere love, a love that is probably on a different level and more touching and sometimes questionable than many love / relationship stories I've seen before.
I have watched this movie a couple times as the concept though beautiful, has disturbed me a lot. I could not quite relate to Mrs Iyers emotional feeling as a married woman with a child for another man, a stranger she just meets on the bus.
It is not until recently that this movie actually got me thinking about the difference between Love and Marriage. I have always believed that the two go together. Well that is how I have been brought up you see. There is no marriage without Love and affection, but I have strong reasons and experience to believe that they are two separate identities. Love is an EMOTION, where as marriage is just an ACTION most of us do to either label this emotion or to fit into society. Not every one who is in Love with a person is happily married or even married period, and not everyone who is married to someone is necessarily in Love. Most of us perform this "action" mainly for "emotional security", when unfortunately it comes with no such warranty.....
Sorry I got a little carried away......... this is a topic for debate and the less I speak the better for all of us.
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