Yes I found the movie bit gory.
Yes it was innovative.
Yes it was a treat for movie connoisseurs.
Yes it provokes strong emotions.
Yes it makes for good discussion.
Yes it was innovative.
Yes it was a treat for movie connoisseurs.
Yes it provokes strong emotions.
Yes it makes for good discussion.
For people who think of it as an exemplery love story, and for people who think of it as an extreme love story, I find both of it to be wrong.
Love makes you happy. But our lead characters in the movie are not happy. They are hungry. They are attracted to each other beyond doubt, they enjoy each other's company as well, but they are craving.
Such is our social conditioning that even if we want to, we cannot tread certain areas due to societal restrictions. We have internalised certain values in a way that we don't allow ourselves the respect and joy we deserve. Such was the conditioning of Nirmali that she wouldn't even acknowledge her feelings towards Sumon. She had a moral compass which she wouldn't let go.
Nirmali is continuously seen judging her close friend, Jumi for having an extra marital affair. Jumi found pleasure and fulfillment in the form of someone else, and she was psychologically at a good place. This is made very clear from the fact that she gets pregnant with her boyfriend, despite being pronounced to be medically incapable of having a child. This also points out that many of our 'sexual issues' are in the mind. And the irony is that Jumi who always wanted to have a child now has conceived, but out of wedlock. A predicament she doesn't know how to deal with.
Coming back to Nirmali, her suppression of her feelings - towards Sumon, towards her husband and maybe a host of other feelings that a woman generally has towards the society - peaks to such an extent that her desires comes out in another form. The desire for meat.
And from then on, Nirmali finds a way to quench her unsatiated desires. And Sumon who ignited this passion in her, helps Nirmali in her struggle. The fact that Sumon doesn't develop a similar hunger for meat, goes on to show that Sumon is not suffering from this 'ailment'. Men generally are more at liberty to express their feelings and the society allows them the space to do so.
Sumon is ready to explore this relation further, unlike Nirmali who is too self policed. Sumon wants to take a step further, but doesn't do so out of fear of losing whatever connection he shares with Nirmali. So instead he helps Nirmali in her quest for meat.
The master stroke of the movie has to be the ending, where the audience feel for the two leading characters, even after their henious crimes of passion.
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