Little too rambling & crafted at times but #Gulmohar spoke many truths about home, family, becoming, being, belonging & the honesty as well as hypocrisy underlying relationships. What we are born into & what we choose, ties we inherit & those we pick up in personal journeys (1)
Loved the simple depth of its lines that resonated with me perhaps because the tenuousness of the idea of home and the speciousness and ambiguities in inherited relationships and so-called family has been a big life lesson I squared up to during COVID…
One can go on and on about the performances of #SharmilaTagore and @BajpayeeManoj who I just marvelled at the other day in #Joram. And now this … #Gulmohar (3) …
However, props specially to the luminous Simran & the wonderfully at ease Suraj Sharma, the terrific ensemble as #Gulmohar staff—Santhy, Gandharv Dewan, Tripti Sahu, Abhinav Bhattacharjee, Chandan Roy who I had written about at the time of Panchayat (4) …
And in the lingo of Hindi cinema “above all” Jatin Goswami who had made bad feel so good in the radically different turn in The Great Indian Murder. And the most spectacular Anuraag Arora who has been rocking it since Oye Lucky Lucky Oye. Rather I noticed him there the first time
Couldn’t attend #Gulmohar screening. Was out of town. But wish @DisneyPlusHS had been a little more generous & easy with the preview screeners. One would have found time to write something more in depth than a tweet thread…
One last point, when your film’s strength is a strong ensemble, please credit them all @ IMDb or ensure we get cast & crew details. Today I tried pausing at end credits to write down the names of some actors I hadn’t seen earlier but each time the algorithm took me to next show
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