Masaan: A review

Sanjai Mishra weeps and says, "You have planned everything. Where does this old father figure in your plans?" 

 A silent Richa Chadda looks on, maintaining a stoic silence. 

 With spellbinding performances by Rich Chadda and Sanjai Mishra, Masaan, meaning a crematorium a smashaan, is a Hindi language film about two central characters. One of them is Richa: Devi Pathak and the other is Vicky: Deepak. Sanjai Mishra plays Richa's father. 

A parallel track has a debutante, Vicky Kaushal, playing a dom, a corpse burner, aspiring to break the shackles of his caste and become a civil engineer. 

 Brilliantly portrayed, the nuances the director has captured will take you by surprise. An underlying casteist theme coupled with the aspirations of small town inhabitants with a opportunistic blackmailer thrown in, the movie is intelligently made. 

I watched it on a whim. But, it had a cathartic effect on me, moved me to tears. I cried so much and for a long time. The loss of loved ones as they portray in the movie did something to me, leaving me in direct connection with the two protagonists. 

 This movie is Richa's best, I must say. Sensitively scripted, the nuances of moral policing and caste upheavals are shown so subtly, it seeps into your sub conscience and stays there. As you move through the movie, it begins to hit you. 

 This is a must watch. 

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