Banaras - A Mystic Love Story
Pankuj Parashar’s, ‘Banaras - A Mystic Love Story’ explores several themes in contemporary Hindu life, knit together into an entertaining plot.The story is of two young Hindus Shwetambhari (Urmilla Matondkar) and Soham (Ashmit Patel), both born in Varanasi (Banaras), the holy city of Hindus. Shwetambhari is the only daughter of rich Brahmin parents (Dimple Kapadia and Raj Babbar) and studies physics at the local university. She is young, bright and admired by all.
April 30th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
Kool film, I loved it!
May 18th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Reviewer: india3000
This film does not fall into a known genre and hence a lot of confusion around its reviews. Once in a blue moon an independent producer has conviction to produce something he/she believes in but doesn’t fit into a genre. Banaras falls into this category. Its a film which can be termed “art”, “commercial” and “documentary” all wrapperd in one. Banaras is not a film you can go to theatres and enjoy with your friends. You can not keep your cell phone switched on or keep gossipping with your friends while the movie is playing. It’s an experince just like meditation. It deals with Quantum as well as reality and rationality. It deals with the nature of “truth” and the nature of “fear” in our day to day bahaviour. By no means it’s a religeous film. Its deeply spiritual. The story in the film is just like a prop. Just an example of what can happen to any of us anywhere in the world. There is no preaching and conclusions drawn in the film. It is all left to the viewers to deduce their own conclusion. Banaras is certainly about evolution of human race and the interconncted world. I personally have nevr been impacted by any other movie before like I am with Banaras. Go and experience it yourself. In the past Tarkowski and Bergman have tried to touch the the nature of existence and God in some manner but never like what you may experience in Banaras. A movie capable of transforming lives.