Masaan (2015)

Along India's Ganges River, four people face prejudice, a strict moral code and a punishing caste system as they confront personal tragedies.

Director:

Neeraj Ghaywan

Writers:

Akbar Allahabadi (poetry written by), Bashir Badr (poetry written by)

Stars:

Richa Chadha, Sanjay Mishra, Vicky Kaushal

Top Rated Indian Movies #78 | 21 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Richa Chadha	...	Devi Pathak (as Richa Chadda)
Sanjay Mishra	...	Vidyadhar Pathak
Vicky Kaushal	...	Deepak Chaudhary
Pankaj Tripathi	...	Sadhya Ji (as Pankaj Tripathy)
Vineet Kumar	...	Doctor Chaudhary
Bhagwan Tiwari	...	Inspector Mishra
Singh Bhupesh	...	Sikander Chaudhary
Satya Kam Anand	...	Vikram Mallah
Saurabh Chadhary	...	Piyush Agarwal
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mohit Abrol	...	Traveller Boy
Deepak Agarwal	...	Father at Coaching Centre
Harsh Agarwal	...	Son at Coaching Centre
Manish Agrahari	...	Pizzeria Waiter
Jamal Ahmad	...	Jeweller #1
Ana	...	Foreigner Girl #2

Storyline

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.

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Plot Keywords:

blackmail | love | interrupted sex | reference to facebook | train | 

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Taglines:

Paths of grieve intersect on the Ganges River.

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Genres:

Drama

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Film was dedicated to Sanjay Mishra's father.

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Goofs

When Devi takes out the Technical Report, while traveling on the bus, the name on the cover is 'Piyush Agarwal'. In the next scene, when she visits the college, she finds an obituary of the same guy pinned to the notice board. In it, the name is 'Piyush Agarwal'.

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Quotes

Devi Pathak: Do you live alone?
Sadhya Ji: No, I live with my dad. My dad lives alone.

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Soundtracks

Bhor
(Credited onscreen as "Bhor Bhor")
Written by Sanjeev Sharma
Performed by Indian Ocean
Music composed by Indian Ocean
Vocals by Amit Kilam, Rahul Ram and Himanshu Joshi
Bass by Rahul Ram
Guitars by Nikhil Rao
Drums and percussion by Amit Kilam

User Reviews

As we all Live we are learning How to Die

Can a single film give us all so many messages, some so universal that it touches all of us as Human beings?Death is as certain as our birth.All of us of whatever culture or faith we are born or bred in know that basic fact.It does not need a thinker or great education. But a film and its audio visual story telling has such an impact that few film like this one can reveal to you all about living even as One faces death all the time or suddenly at any time unexpected.How like flow of river Ganga which begins as many rivers but merges at a geographical place in India the characters of the film begin far apart from each other.The stage is set all along the river and camera captures it in pain, suffering, will to live on and beauty it shares with those who resides along her banks. The spasm of a growing up youth beyond genders and culture or geography is well captured by first part of the film.Two different approaches to Courtship and eventual beginning of a unit of civilization-The family is revealed.One is daring and experimental walking the talk till its unexpected turn and the Other soft and smooth slowly inter twining relationship which too faces its test.Suddenness of turn of events in both stories shake you up and tests the will power of the protagonists.How they climb the uphill climb challenge that the life suddenly throws against them leaves us with immense faith in the flow of time ,life and ability of the Human beings to live on despite it all.The river along is the perfect analogy that any one can relate it all with.The ghats and life of the most ancient city in the world-Kashi,Benares ,Varanasi is captured with caring camera work.Despite the stage where last rites by Fire are performed as a routine occupation by few of its actors the life of courtship ,education, finding job, friendship between genders and within themselves all blossom in front of you.How friends are add ons to the family helping one in many ways during all times is what we all can relate to.How one has to walk out of it all as life moves on too we all know.Barriers of age,culture,ethos,caste and economic difficulties are multiplied by by gross inhuman injustice of corruption and exploitation from those who are our protectors.How in our utopia we all dream of fair-play justice, freedom to be oneself and power to explore all aspects of life as we want!The central characters have acted so well with such finis in direction of each frames and scenes that we all feel the ups and downs in their lives as if our own for 109 minutes we share with them till screen is lit.What else is life but certainty of death looming large silently unseen over it.Still we all live ,enjoy its each moment,and have ability to heal the wounds and learn to live on as a river does.Film will reinforce a belief that Life will help you ,the world will conspire to help you if you help yourself and continue the journey called Life.Walk On despite it all..

Details

Country:

India France

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

24 June 2015 (France)

Also Known As:

Fly Away Solo

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$120,809

Company Credits

Production Co:

Drishyam Films, Macassar Productions, Phantom Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1