dor.....

our mid-sem exams were 3 days away and i was feeling restless because i didnt know the course for the subjects i had taken and knowing the schedule for the exams was a far cry. So i decided anyway studying or not wont affect the result lets watch some movie not in the room, away from the college so that slogging environment around wont depress me furthur. besides this i had to meet my school friend who studies in mangalore whom i had not met for quite a long time. I went to adlabs at mangalore which is 45 min journey from our hostel. but the condition of the road is so fucked up that your journey becomes a bumpy roller-coster ride. besides drivers in this region are in such a hurry that more than half of the time you will be in air.
when i reached adlabs my friend hadnt arrived . wait before that i forgot to mention one more reason to go to adlabs is that we get to see some hot-chicks which is much needed respite from the non-males in our college we are forced to see.
i was tempted to sit in CCD (cafe coffee day) for the above mentioned reason. well obviously you have to take something , so i ordered mango-colada with whipped cream, but the whole experience was worth it. in the mean-time i called my friend and told that i had bought the tickets for the movie DOR...which he agreed skeptically. dor is the latest nagesh kukunoor movie and i had read a very positive review of this movie so was hell bent on watching it. anyway i finished my colada by the time he came and we decided to go towards the theatre hall.

the movie was about lives of two woman which gets connected due to some series of events, if you believe in synchronicity i wont call it coincidence but here husbands of these two women go to saudi to earn money and happen to share the same flat. due to some unfortunate circumstances one of them dies and the blame is put on the other one whom they have shown to be having good relations with. having no witness he is awarded death-penalty. but according to saudi law if widow( ayesha takia) pardons the accused by signing some document his life can be saved. now wife( gul panag) of the accused (talapade) goes in search of this widow to convince her of his innocence.
gul panag is shown to be living in HP whose picturisation is very beautiful but is nothing as compared to her. in simple clothes she looks awe-some. lets not get distracted, she goes in search of ayesha who lives some-where in rajasthan where she comes in contact with one con-artist (iqbal hero) who is the humor element in the movie. he helps her , i still dont know why , in her quest. ayesha's in-laws are extremly orthodox and are shown to be following old practises including women ostracization. in order to get her sign she befriends ayesha but begins to like her actually and feels that she is cheating on her. i wont reveal the climax....if at all you can call it that.
but the movie is really beautiful and rich with human emotions. the only problem with the movie was its pace, it can even put you to sleep. besides it was too feminist in nature. anyway
gul panag and ayesha takia's acting was amazing with brilliant direction of nagesh kukunoor.
you can watch it once........