There is a scene in Bengal writer-director Rituparno Ghosh’s first Hindi film, Raincoat (2004), where the wonderful suggestion arises when the protagonist is shaving that he is putting on a kind of mask. The same thing occurs, involving a lesser character, in the film Ghosh made the previous year: Shubho Mahurat, based on Agatha Christie’s […]
Daily Archives: June 26, 2010
Measured, profound, Raincoat is Bengal writer-director Rituparno Ghosh’s first film in Hindi. (He has since made a few more, usually combining Hindi and Bengali dialogue.) Ghosh wrote the original script in his own language, and Usha Ganguly translated it into Hindi, adding material to deepen its Hindu realism. The film is sober and serious; there […]
Dennis Grunes 