The greatest movie ever made..!

Beautiful, moving film.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Today morning, I watched the movie- Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. Actually someone provoked me to watch it. As usual, I just googled it to its wiki page and IMDb. IMDb gave it 7.9 (a pretty good for Hindi movie, which is always underestimated when compared with Hollywood, in rating), which was the only enough reason to watch it. Moreover, user reviews were also telling it "a must watch movie". Also, the story line didn't seem like the typical good going Hindi movie. Therefore, I downloaded it and watched it at 04:00 AM...ya its in the morning.Movie was all about a bus journey, where bus was carrying the people of different religions and ethnics of India. Director Aparna Sen plotted the whole story around the Jahangir (a Muslim guy) and Mrs. Minakshi Iyer (a pure Tamil Brahmin). By putting the passengers from different age group, Sen also tried to focus on generation's thought process. In fact, in movie, one very old guy was complaining on the today's dress culture by comparing it from their times that he barely saw his wife's hand on his marriage. As movie proceeds, bus got stuck in a curfew. Later passengers came to know about happening of all this curfew because of the riot going on between Hindu and Muslim. A mob of their respective religion were killing the people and burning the villages of anti- religion. In-between, Minakshi came to know Jahangir is a Muslim. Being a hypo typical Brahmin girl, she hated him first, but later saved his life saying him as her husband and tagged him with the name "Mani". If she hated him, then why she saved his life?........Answer to this question may be because Jahangir helped him before this incident or she wants someone to protect her and her child or might be because of humanity. Whatever it was, afterward this, the whole bus was knowing them as Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. Jahangir was shown as an open-minded person opposing to the Minakshi who was always highly concerned about the caste-ism. But, as the story proceeds, she started feeling all this caste-ism a crap and transformed herself into Jahangir's personality. Later both fall in love but don't disclose their feelings except Minakshi saying Jahangir as Mr. Iyer.And ya one more thing- mind the pronunciation here: Its Meenakshi and not Minakshi as told by Meenakshi in the movie :)Well, how much I liked it? ..... Answer is in the rating which I'll give it 7 out of 10. Why I gave 7 because movie was a good going and I never felt bored. Apart from this, there was something in the movie which was not ordinary. I can't exactly name it but it may be the kinda different script, unusual and undefined relationship which is itself not sure about its name. Why I deducted 3 because it didn't touch my emotion which I generally expect from movie or may be I overestimated it before watching it.

Aparna Sen has written and directed a winner !!!This movie addresses an issue that is often dealt with but has never been treated with as much clarity and closer to reality as this. It is amazing how Aparna Sen has managed to bring out the brutality and the futility of communal riots without the usual mind-numbing violence and blood shed. It reminds us how baseless are the inherent prejudices in the minds of people against people of other religions. Another thing it does is to show how thin the line is between marital fidelity and otherwise. For a Bengali, Konkana Sen pulls off the part of a Tamilian very convincingly. And Rahul Bose as the pensive photographer, has outdone himself. Their fateful meeting and the journey that they embark on, is one that you don't want to miss. All in all a beautiful movie.

Truly amazing.....These are the words which explain the least about this movie. It draws you quite a long into thought about various possible human emotions. Some of the most horrifying scenes based on communal riots are pictured for this movie. Similarly, the most unforgettable romantic scene for me, is from this movie.When I saw the movie for the first time, I was shocked to see the astonishingly natural portrayal of the actors and the sequences. Rahul Bose and Konkana sen gave their best performances till date. Definitely one of the all time best movies produced by bollywood.I strongly recommend this movie to every movie enthusiast.

This is the most heartfelt and amazingly complete film I have ever seen come out of Bollywood and to think of they never sent it to the Oscars. I also ended up winning the best picture in the Berlin Film Festival. The Indian Film board sucks !! Anyway all grouches apart it is really and truly a wonderful film. The small scenes that so delicately portray the coming out of a very orthodox brahmin girl who is forced by circumstances she faces on her bus journey are really awe inspiring.Kudos to aparna sen for creating this landmark of a movie. No one else could have depicted the scene in the bus where konkona sen protects Raja (Rahul Bose) from the extremists. They characters have been portrayed beautifully. And to think of Konkona Sen is not even A Tamil. The accent she pulled of the movie was beyond authentic ...Rahul Bose has always been one of my favorite actors. I loved him in Jhankar Beats. He is one actor who can effortlessly glide into a psyche of a character and make you believe as if you never knew Rahul Bose as anything else other than Raja the photographer...The poignant scenes of Raja photographing the landscape the morning after the attack on the bus is really well scripted and photographed. Also the scene with the Jew on the bus is so much reality packed into iotas of seconds ... no unreal heroism here .. just pure human psyche .. !!Hats off Aparna Sen !! You Rule !! Rahul .. never ever leave acting ...