Tribhanga solid: Kajol, Tanvi Azmi, Mithila Palkar, Kunaal Roy Kapoor, Vaibhav Tatwawaadi, Manav Gohil, KanwaljeetTribhanga director: Renuka ShahaneTribhanga score: Three stars
A life-changing occasion attracts collectively three generations of girls to look again and introspect: have been they proper of their actions, and the issues they considered one another? Renuka Shahane’s directorial debut Tribhanga is a chamber piece which manages to go previous its issues to brim over with actual feeling.
Nayantara aka Nayan Apte (Azmi) is the form of lady who was born forward of her time. Her ardour for writing over-rides all else, and neither a always carping mother-in-law, a weak husband, and the calls for of two rising youngsters can divert her. Deeply scarred daughter Anu (Kajol), compelled into carving a life for herself, has grown laborious edges and a foul mouth. And Masha (Palkar), grand-daughter of the primary, and daughter of the second, has needed to face the implications of the impetuousness of her ‘ajji’ and ‘aayi’.
What I actually like about Tribhanga is the clear-eyed, unsentimental remedy of relationships, which may typically be so cloyingly exaggerated in mainstream cinema. Nayan is rarely apologetic about her need to be a author: she has spent too lengthy listening to different folks; now all she needs is her personal house, and freedom to choose up her pen. Does that make her egocentric and self-absorbed, or true-to-herself? Shahane doesn’t decide. She lets us make up our minds for ourselves.
Anu is the driving pressure of the movie, the ‘tedhi medi crazy tribhanga’, buffeted between a mom who in her zeal to do her personal factor was blind to the abuse of the daughter, and her personal daughter who veers in the direction of secure conservatism. Kajol begins off by being too in all places, considerably out of synch with the others, however that’s An inventory Bollywood main girl for you. Fortunately for the movie, and us, she harnesses all that errant, sparking vitality and turns into positive and regular, proving that the proper plot and remedy is all the things. If solely that completely utilized lipstick wasn’t on even in her hospital mattress.
For a movie that wishes to be actual, the units are irksome: even a seven-star hospital room, a spot the place a lot of the motion takes place, wouldn’t look a lot like a front room. And a lot of the males — spouses, companions, siblings — get brief shrift. The one man who does have a sizeable half is a ‘shuddh’ Hindi speaker who’s recording Nayan’s ‘jeevani’: Roy Kapoor tries too laborious and lets the hassle present. Kanwaljeet is at all times enjoyable to observe, however he comes on too briefly. Tatwawaadi leaves an impression as Robindro, Nayan’s son and Anu’s brother, who has discovered internal peace: how did he arrive at his beatific smile? Somewhat extra element would have rounded off the movie.
Shahane is far more assured with regards to her girls. They take care of one another’s troubles and foibles, are allowed to make errors, and forge their very own paths. That’s pure pleasure.
