#Sonata #BollywoodEnglishFilmMovieReview #JohnsonThomas
Bollywood English Film Review Johnson Thomas Big Words, small effect Film: Sonata Cast: Shabana Azmi, Aparna Sen, Lillette Dubey Director: Aparna Sen Rating: * * * Runtime: 104 mins Aparna Sen’s film is based on Mahesh Eklunchwar’s play of the same name- about three unmarried 60 plus women living varying lifestyles yet bonding together with a tenacity that goes beyond individual weaknesses. Aruna Chaturvedi(Aparna Sen) and Dolon Sen (Shabana Azmi) have been sharing an apartment together for the past twenty years yet it takes one skype call from a college friend Samir- who turned female through a sex reassignment surgery, to stir up a hornet’s nest( sort of) between the two. Aru is a repressed. Straight laced, conservative , Sanskrit professor/author whose origins are from highly conservative middle India while Dolon, a HOD(?) at a Bank is Bengali, the more touchy, feely, exuberant type who loves to try out new things and live the good life. They are supposedly chalk and ...