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Aamis (2019)
Haunting obsession for love
The trailer suggested this movie to have some unexpected twists and turns in a romantic relationship.But it never even hinted about the dark and realistic often undiscovered territory of the human mind that is showcased in the
second half of the film.
Like many other romantic movies this movie opens up with a normal relationship building up from day to day events.The character played by Lima Das named as Nirmali is a pediatric surgent and with a sudden turn of fate somehow meets the male protagonist Suman played by Arkaprava Barua. Though by the first half it was clear that Nirmali is married and this relationship was sort of extramarital but that was pretty common in movies like this.
The original twist comes in the second half of the movie.This slow pace of events through out the entire runtime was the main catalyst to what comes next.The change in the tone of the movie was so gradual that it slips right under our skins and we only realize it at the end of the story that whatever we were watching is just a twisted representation of human obssessions. The story is revealed in such a flawless fashion that we cannot even fathom to realize for a moment the signs of extreme darkness lurking around every scenes .
Aamis is a Bengali-Assamese word which generally means non-veg.Both of the protagonists have this common trait of love for non veg dishes.However a twisted enough meaning of this word is more than enough to describe the true nature of the movie or story to unfold.The English naming of this movie "Ravening" is more suitable to describe it.
The Lunchbox (2013)
A Slice of Life movie with a sprinkle of romance
From the trailer itself it was clear that the movie is going to be a slice of life movie with twist and turns in it.The story mainly revolves around two protagonists an eight to five middle class government employee named Fernandes and a housewife Ila. What connects between them is a wrongly sent Lunchbox.From the beginning of the movie it was clear that a wrong turn of event is going to be the main motivation of the movie. And it proceeds further to a point where we find an unexpected romance being staged.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui played the fun comic relief role of Shaikh in this movie. Fernandes played by Irfaan Khan seems to be a dull boring government employee who works in an office which seems to be from the age of black and white televisions. But as the story proceeds,his character starts to get back it's colour with the arrival of that unknown lunchbox and with the touch of Shaikh.On the other end of the story is housewife Ila,always trapped in her small apartment and suddenly she discovers this freedom by making an unexpected pen friendship. Also at the turning point of the story she came to know about the extra marital affair of her husband.From that point on she became more enthusiastic about the new character in her life and also chose to take some independent and drastic decisions to come out of her caged life.
The story has a bitter-sweet ending because at the end a stage was created for both the male and female protagonist to finally meet each other.But the movie ends with an open ending never showing whether they actually met or not.