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Masaan

2015 · 109 min

A quiet, aching weave of grief and small cruelties that slowly opens into a fragile, earned hope.

Overview
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless 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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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • guilt
  • class
  • love
  • family
Places
  • small town
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism9
Romance6
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Neeraj Ghaywan
Written by
Varun Grover, Neeraj Ghaywan
Starring
Richa Chadha, Sanjay Mishra, Vicky Kaushal, Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Pankaj Tripathi, Bhagwan Tiwari, Vineet Kumar, Bhupesh Singh
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
109 min
Country
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Languages
Hindi

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