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Sandcastle Review
- 3/18/2014 10:15:50 AM
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Cast: Shahana Chatterjee, Uditvanu Das, Rajat Sharma, Malavika JethwaniDirection: Shomshuklla DasGenre: DramaDuration: 1 hour 25 minutes
Set in contemporary India, the film is about Sheila's (Chatterjee) journey on the path of self-discovery amidst the pressures and expectations of urban society. She is helped along her path by Maya (Jethwani).
Review: Sandcastle is a film that, beneath the stylized production, attempts to address an important subject pertaining to women. It is a film that is split into many parts, or chapters, like a book or a play. Each part examines the story from a different angle.
Sheila is married to a successful husband Vikram (Sharma) and spends a lot of time examining how to reconcile her role as a wife who is living in the safe cocoon of an upper-class existence but reflects on her own ambitions and individuality. Sheila has a near-constant stream-of consciousness chatter going on. And one day, Maya appears.
She could very well be a real life person or simply a figment of Sheila's overactive imagination. While Sheila is overly-emotional and definitely lonely in her own world, Maya fashions herself to be the colourfully-dressed provider of pragmatic answers to Sheila's many questions. Maya offers useful but boringly obvious advice about not letting people walk over you and about reinventing oneself; what is ironic is that such bits of wisdom can be applicable to anyone, regardless of gender.
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