'Masaan': An Emotionally Engaging Tale

The film’s story revolves around four lives which intersect along the Ganga river: a low-caste boy falling 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. Through “Masaan”, Ghaywan wanted to revive the “innocence” of small-town romance seen in Bollywood oldies like “Nadiya Ke Paar”. He also made a conscious decision to show small cities in a “different light” and narrate how Varanasi is evolving instead of “exoticising” the famed ancient city situated along the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh. So you won’t see the ‘aarti’ at Dashashwamedh ghat, the naked sadhus and other examples synonymous with Varanasi, he said.”We did not want to show that part. The characters and stories are more important so we wanted to stay away from that. It was a deliberate choice in scripting.

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