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A young married couple goes to a new place; the wife is pregnant and there's an older couple taking care of them. They are nice – perhaps a bit too nice, hiding sinister plans behind their over-friendly facade.
Detective Byomkesh Bakshi! is a slow-cooked feast. It simmers and thickens and leisurely acquires a rich and long-lasting flavour. The film requires patience.
The director, Konkona Sen Sharma, embraces death in metaphors. While the film focuses on many themes from grief and isolation to masculinity, class, gender and what stands out is death of innocence
Enakshi Dasgupta (an ageless Shweta Tripathi) has alopecia, a rare hair-loss disease that condemns her to a wig and a decade of rejection by sheepish arranged-marriage candidates.
What would happen if one day an ordinary man conditioned by culture and tradition suddenly decides that he will only believe what he can see with his eyes and disregard everything else?
The film is so quiet and so still in some parts, that you will get impatient. But it is evocative and its tenderness will stay with you. Photograph is a meditative movie on a relationship that hesitantly can be called love.
October raises these questions and helps one find answers through this story of Dan and Shiuli: How far will you go for someone who asks where you are just before falling down from a building's terrace? What is unconditional care and purity in this purpose-driven world?
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