The above question is what the movie leaves me with, every time I watch it. It's hard to come by films, especially mainstream Bollywood ones, which check all the boxes that help make a 'film' into 'cinema', and Masaan manages to fit into all of these defining moulds, and break them successfully.
Without getting much into the plot of the film, Masaan is a story which stays with you for a lifetime, like the greats of The Shawshank Redemption. The film is an extreme closeup of the Indian societal and casteist construct, for both foreign nationals wanting to learn about modern day India, and natives oblivious of the burgeois.
A certain Chekhov's Gun-esque element beautifully blends the stories of the two protagonists.
Watch it once, and the watch it again, because the film leaves you with a feeling of completeness, and nothingness alike.
Without getting much into the plot of the film, Masaan is a story which stays with you for a lifetime, like the greats of The Shawshank Redemption. The film is an extreme closeup of the Indian societal and casteist construct, for both foreign nationals wanting to learn about modern day India, and natives oblivious of the burgeois.
A certain Chekhov's Gun-esque element beautifully blends the stories of the two protagonists.
Watch it once, and the watch it again, because the film leaves you with a feeling of completeness, and nothingness alike.