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Satya Prakash’s POV

Film “ MASAAN” is a brilliant piece of art.

Film “MASAAN” hovers two love stories simultaneously in parallel to each other in an Indian City Banaras. The two love stories are not connected at all. Each story has its own characters and they play with progression. Parallel converges to infinite horizon but these two love stories of young boys and girls meet at the Bank of SANGAM ( ALLAHABAD) when they lose their counterparts in untimely accident.

The Screen play of the film is logically and brilliantly written. The progression of both the stories have been caressed and crafted with emotions of love, affection, anger, fear, aesthetics etc.

The film “MASAAN” is showcase of catharsis of collective  deprived public of Indian Society.

One of the love story is devastating because of cruel moral policing of  Feudal city of Banaras that has several impediments among the normal lives of citizens. The moral policing of SHO has compelled the lover boy to commit suicide and mms of one the love-lady makes her life hell along with her father who is now retired teacher, earning money from religious worshipping at death funeral. Richa Chaddha has enlivened the character who feels entrapped from one job to another.Police has almost paralysed the life of Mr.Pathak ( father of Richa Chaddha) who keeps earning his prestige from Lumpen SHO .

The second love story ends with the end up of life girl whose bus meets a horrendous accident. The upper caste girl and a outcaste engineering student love to each other. When girl comes to know of her love-boy’s belonging to the heinous outcaste whose men involve burning the corpse. It’s a bizarre  in  contemporary social and political structure of India. The boy manifests the reality and moves away with brooding. The boy’s faded life  gets bloomed when he gets encouraging call from the girl. She suggests him to get the job and further adds that may be, she may flee with him. The boy starts jumping in joy.He gets handsome job in Allahabad but his lovy-dovy is no more. He gets awe-stunned to see Shalu ( beloved girl) as corpse at his funeral bank of Ganga river in Banaras.

The protagonist of first love story takes admission in Allahabad for further education. She goes to the bank of Sangam( it’s a myth that three rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Sarswati meet here) where the male protagonist of second story is sitting. The girl is crying in a state of gloom, seeing the flowing waves of river.The boy extends a bottle of water. She feels solaced. Both step into a boat that ferry  by taking money.

The girl of first love-story and boy of second love-story converge at Sangam where three rivers converge and moves a head as Ganga.

The both the stories have grey area of feudo-capitalist society where high-tech digital world and heinous political arrangement with caste system  go ahead simultaneously that keeps putting big stones on the path of social development.

The film “ MASAAN” is a allegory of heinous social and political order of country  that has made human life as burning life till the death.

The film travels from pessimism to optimism at the fade-out of the film.

Director Neeraj Ghaywan is an intelligent writer-director who portrays Indian society in two ways that India is still a crude feudal society where Police acts as landlord or powerful person and secondly that India is caste-ridden society that creates ferocious situation before two love-birds.

The metro audiences are  also watching the movie “ MASAAN” amidst two mega budgeted films “BAHUBALI: A Beginning “ and “BAJARANGI BHAIJAAN” . Another big budgeted film “DRISHAYAM” has pounded this film too but audiences have begun walking theatre for this film. The distributers must increase the number of theatres across Globe.

Richa Chaddha , Sweta Tripathi Sanjay Mishra and Vicky Kaushal  have stunned the audiences with their performance.

Indian Ocean’s music is awesome.

I salute the director Mr. Neeraj Ghaywan for his excellence movie “Massan”

Film makers must make such  films like MASAAN that stir the dormant thoughts into fire.