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Amidst this web of internal jokes and bygone references what stands out the most is the friendship between Nandu, Vikram (Ranvir Shorey) and Brian (Jim Sarbh). Some friendships grow and shape themselves as we grow as individuals in the world. These friendships are often characterised with certain traits which then tend to become the identifying markers for them.
What his family members do not realise is that the death of his father two years back had left Shutu heartbroken and he is grappling to come to terms with it. He seeks the warmth of his father in his old sweaters and his graduation certificates, tokens which are reminders of the man. Death is an incident which leaves unrehearsed imprints on individuals. Speaking from a personal account, I completely relate to the difficulty to grapple with the loss of that individual. Its not the absence of that person that strikes out to you, but it is the sudden reminders of that person which get unleashed from your memory, that make you sit up in your bed in the middle of the night and weep inconsolably.
Things tend to look up when Mimi and Shutu start having a brief fling, and Shutu starts to feel important. But when Tani goes missing and everyone blames Shutu for not taking care of her, Shutu realises his position. His feeling of abandonment is further heightened when he goes to look for Tani with Nandu, falls in a ditch in the forest and is left there by Nandu. Meanwhile the Bakshis celebrating the safe return of Tani, do not even realise Shutu is missing until Mrs Bakshi is preparing to serve dinner. But unlike Tani, Shutu is not that important to the Bakshis, and hence only a servant is sent to search for him, rather than the entire household.
Mental illnesses are like a ticking bomb, you might never realise their existence, but they keep gnawing away at your reality. Bullying triggers a lot of bitter emotions within us and the bully does not realise the extent of the damage he or she is doing. But, standing up to your bullies is difficult, and there are people whose pain and grief leads them to choose death, just like Shutu.
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A Death in the Gunj is a 2016 family-drama movie directed by Konkona Sen Sharma. She makes brilliant use of atmospheric horror to instil a disturbing apprehension of doom among the viewers. Set in 1978, Ranchi, the movie begins with seven family members gathering at McCluskiegunj to spend a short winter vacation. Subsequently, the movie follows a slow but uncomfortable descent into development of complex emotions without any resolution to them. The movie has an ensemble cast of Vikrant Massey, Kalki Koechlin, Gulshan Devaiah, Ranvir Shorey, Jim Sarbh, Tilottoma Shome, Tanuja and Om Puri. All of them are aptly selected to bring out an almost perfect expansion of their characters through the 110 minutes of its running time.
Vikrant Massey plays the protagonist of the movie, Shutu. Shutu is a gentle and sensitive boy who has recently lost his father. He is struggling to come to terms with the overwhelming sense of loss and this turmoil has resulted in instability in both his academic and personal life. To escalate this internal disorder further, his emotional vulnerability is ignored for the most part by his family. However, he is able to build a relationship with the youngest member in the family. The relationship between the 8-year-old Tani and Shutu is tender and represented through affectionate cinematography.
They spend time against muted backgrounds carrying out mundane activities. Shutu finds comfort in Tani because he is unable to find relief in the other members of the family who are constantly trying to make Shutu imbibe traits of violence and coarseness. Be it in a game of kabaddi or through cruel pranks, Shutu is always seen to be the feeble link who is at the receiving end of the banter.
Through glorification of old guns and consequently the orthodox machismo attached to them, the movie makes the viewers aware of what is to occur. Sen Sharma pulls the viewers into a story of familial structures and makes them witness the horrors of gender roles.
Although Sensharma seems confident behind the camera, she directs her cast of name actors at too high a pitch. It becomes exhausting to watch their near-manic singing, dancing, and playing games. Nevertheless, veteran cinematographer Sirsha Ray makes good use of the decaying melancholy of the McCluskiegunj location to establish mood. The score by Sagar Desai is impressive but a tad overused.
I have to say this at the very beginning, I thought the word gunj in the movie had to be pronounced as goonj meaning an echo, when actually it meant gunj pronounced as ganj and meaning a small marketplace. Gunj refers to the small town of McCluskiegunj where the entire narrative takes place. Konkona Sen Sharma makes her directorial debut with this movie and establishes her art yet again, she does not try to shove things down the throat of the audience but at the same time, does her best to leave a little for the audience to comprehend on their own. Her narrative is so genuine, she actually manages to transport you back to 1979, the time that flaunted liberated women and family ties. The warmth and camaraderie between all members of the family, young and old alike is palpable and that one scene, where the house helps (also locals) and the kids of the house dance and sing to folk music is an insight into their culture.
Death in the Gunj, to me is a character study of Shyamal Chatterjee or Shutu. Shutu, a scholarly 23-year-old who has just lost his father and undergone a few academic challenges, is often the first one called out to do all the menial work and clean up after everyone. It might be because of how economically inferior he feels compared to the rest or that is just how he is perceived by the family at large. He is also shown as an outsider, trying to fit in, desperately so and when he is first introduced to everyone, his actual name is barely even registered. He is made to baby sit Tani who is attached to him and through Tani, a lot of who Shutu is as a person is revealed to the audience. There are a lot of metaphors that hint towards death within the movie. When Shutu shows Tani his list of favourite words starting with E, Eulogy is repeated enough times for you to memorize it too. The presence of a dead moth and the slow, deliberate killing of the ant in the burning sun are some scenes that have been played out very carefully. Shutu is also shown as a very sensitive man, paying heed to the little emotions of others that most fail to even notice. He is also shown coping with his own demons, nightmares and insecurities throughout the movie. He is always at the periphery, striving to break through and that perpetual struggle moves you. Vikrant Massey portrays the most minute emotions, flawlessly never letting you miss the consequence of a dialogue aimed at him or his steady, calculated downfall. Towards the end as his irrelevance gets clearer to his character, his helplessness and tragedy spills right out of his eyes. His face, a sorrow shadow of the charm that it had once excused. Death in the gunj, is about Shutu and his struggle, his first chance at a romantic liaison, his first shot at some exposure and a possibility of feeling accepted but most importantly, his downfall. The haunting look on his face stays with you, even after the movie has long ended.
There are very few movies in Bollywood that are so well made, with a definite plot, a strong and efficient cast, and a captivating narration. Give this one movie a chance, for the love of movies, for the sake of wonderfully told stories and for the talent that is Vikrant Massey.
Bullying, especially in impressionable childhood and adolescence, can change you in fundamental ways. It can make you a needy, clingy, ingratiating people-pleaser on the one hand, and an even bigger bully on the other.
The sense of foreboding starts building up slowly, subtly. Nothing happens, and everything does, as the visitors begin finding the laidback rhythms of life in the gunj, intersected by the coming and goings of old friends, Vikram Chaudhary (Ranvir Shorey) and Brian McKenzie (Jim Sarbh). The languid picnicking (reminiscent in flashes of both Aranyer Din Ratri, and Picnic At Hanging Rock), the dinner party to welcome a new bride, the game of kabbadi: all activities to pass the time, all seemingly normal. But overlaid by simmering sexual tensions, marital compulsions, macho rituals, and cloying unease.
The clothes the actors wear are spot on. The setting is picturesque, not picaresque, and the characters are detailed without descending into caricature. But some clunkiness rears up once in a while: the way everyone speaks, in a mix of English, Bangla and Hindi is nicely natural but some lines and body language is ahead of the time; the late great Om Puri comes off unnecessarily lumbering in bits; and the biggest flaw is a tonal switch between a crucial opening scene, and a climactic one.
But these do not take away from the essence of the film, brimming with excellent performances. The characters are connected by old ties of family and friendship, who fall into the corrosive patterns established long back. Massey as the troubled, sensitive, unravelling Shutu, Koechlin as the bored, looking-for-arousal Mimi, Devaiah as the conventional husband-father easily nudged into whooping it up with the boys, and as easily prone to blaming his wife for things going awry, Sharma as the little girl both likeable yet demanding, Shorey as the blustery left-behind-in-a-small-town-not-quite-hick, Sarbh bringing up the rear, and the superb Tanuja (we need more of this actress): this is a thoughtfully-assembled ensemble played to its strengths.
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