In an age of instant connectivity,
where love needs to be explicitely expressed several times in a day to be
understood Aditya Vikram Sengupta's#AshaJaoarMajhe / #Labouroflove celebrates ethereal love. The husband
hangs the clothes to dry in the morning , the wife removes them in the evening.
They eat the cake from the same bakery. The husband paddles the cycle faster so
that he can meet the wife just before she leaves for work. The wife carefully
keeps the food for her husband. Such mundane activities. And labour of love
explores the extraordinary love, in these ordinary everyday activities , which
we so carelessly ignore. Set in the backdrop of a recession hit world, Asha
Jaoar Majhe is a real tribute to the essence of love.
It celebrates the silence in an age
where noise reigns. The cinematography is poetic & surreal; the attention
to detail is almost obsessive. In one particular scene the camera pans on the
cycle wheel as it keeps on moving at a break-neck speed. An allegory to the
modern world where everyone is running at a pace beyond their control. The
world where survival is a question & losing is not an option , sanity can
rarely prevail !
With a languid pace &
no dialogue it is not an easy film to watch . But if you manage to sit through
, in the last scene , which has touch of Ray , you would realise the entire
movie was a build up for the sublime ending. Asha Jaoar Majhe is a poetic story
presented with a painter's sensibility. Watch it if you possess the patience to
appreciate the quintessence of Love.
P. S. -Watched it last week
& as the end credits rolled the audience stood up and clapped . In Kolkata
there were 2 shows in the 1st week & the whole week it ran houseful.
Reiterates the faith in the power of Good Cinema & an ever evolving
audience.
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