Mansah

Mansah

Favorite films

  • Anhonee
  • Aa Gale Lag Jaa
  • Kati Patang
  • Kora Kagaz

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  • Sujata

    ★★★★½

  • Milan

  • Zindagi Zindagi

    ★★★★

  • Pyasi Shaam

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Milan
Liked Watched

We are pioneers and made of awesome: Rattan Bai and her daughters: Nutan

Little bit wobbly pacing-wise, especially for a spell about two thirds in, but Sunil Dutt and Nutan growing to an understanding and falling in love (no confession necessary) in the first half is perfection, so is the dramatic, fever dream end. I love the optimistic end credit note that 'this is just the beginning', wish it was aging better:(

The cinematography is beautiful and those song picturisations:…

Zindagi Zindagi
★★★★ Liked Watched

This was just lovely. So melancholy and wistful of the days that were, the roads that didn't get taken, and all the futures that could have been. But it was okay, because it was also optimistic and warm, and from the very first moment I felt like I was among friends. (And I was, of course, not only my beloved Waheedaji and Sunil, but that whole crew of patients and nurses including Ashok Kumar, Iftekhar, Farida Jalal, and so many…

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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
★★★ Rewatched

I find myself wishing that Zoya Akhtar and team had spent as much time developing the film's female characters as its male ones.

Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana
★★½ Added

I have really mixed feelings about this film, at the end of the first half I was pretty excited about the way the story took on dowry and the role of a woman post marriage but after the interval the film repeated most of the awful ideas from Badrinath ki Dulhania including the notion that the man's broken heart excuses any bad behaviour he did later while the woman, having once broken the man's heart, must forgive anything and accept…