Gangoobai

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Gangoobai
Directed by Priya Krishnaswamy
Produced by National Film Development Corporation of India
Starring
Music by Ved Nair
Cinematography Anil Chandel
Sandeep Patil
Editing by Priya Krishnaswamy
Release dates
  • October 2012 (2012-10) (Mumbai Film Festival)
  • January 11, 2013 (2013-01-11)
Country India
Language Hindi
Marathi

Gangoobai[1] is 2013 Bollywood drama film, produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India and directed by Priya Krishnaswamy.[2] It stars Sarita Joshi in the lead role as Gangoobai.

The story is about an elderly maid servant who works hard to achieve her dream of an extremely expensive Gara sari and changes the lives of people she interacts with while in Mumbai to buy the sari. The film was premiered at MAMI 2012, in the New Faces in Indian Cinema section; the South Asian Film Festival in Canada; the Hanoi International Film Festival in Vietnam and the IFFI 2012.[3]

Plot

Gangoobai (Sarita Joshi) is an elderly widowed maid servant in the small town of Matheran, working for an affluent family. She one day sees the daughter of the family wearing a Gara sari bought from a very posh store, Ardra. The sari mesmerizes her; she cannot sleep that night. She counts all her savings, and finding it short of the expected amount to buy a similar sari, she works hard for the next four years to save enough. She makes the trip to Mumbai to Ardra, which at that time is having financial difficulties, and there meets Daksha (Mita Vashisht), the manager, Waman Ponkshe (Purab Kohli), an accountant, Monisha (Nidhi Sunil), a model, the designer Rohan (Rajendranath Zutshi) and Jamshyd Mistry (Behram Rana), a rich elderly person. Whether she gets the sari she longs for and how their interactions with her impact their lives for ever are the rest of the story.

Cast

  • Sarita Joshi as Gangoobai
  • Purab Kohli as Waman Ponkshe
  • Mita Vashisht as Daksha
  • Rajendranath Zutshi as Rohan[4][5]
  • Nidhi Sunil as Monisha
  • Aparna Kanekar as Malanbai (Gangoobai's friend in village)
  • Gopi Desai as Mrs. Tahiliani
  • Behram Rana as Jamshyd Mistry
  • Rushad Rana as Khushru Mistry
  • Ankita Shrivastava as Santripti
  • Ardra Swaroop as Simone's assistant

Critical Response

The Times of India gave it 2.5 stars out of 5 and the reviewer summarizes it as "Gangoobai doesn't sweep your heart away, but leaves you with some sweet, feel-good moments."[2] MiD DAY gave the movie 3.5 out of 5 stars and says: "[T]his heartwarming film subtly teaches us something about our generation."[6] The reviewer at Live Mint called it "a fairy tale".[7]

References

  1. ↑ 'Gangoobai 2013 film full details on cast, crew, story and production' imdb.com. Retrieved January 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Madhureeta Mukherjee (2013-01-10). "Hinto movie reviews: Gangoobai". Times of India. Retrieved 2013-07-05. 
  3. ↑ Rika Aash (2013-01-11). "NFDC to release Gangoobai on January 11". Indian Express. Retrieved 2013-07-08. 
  4. ↑ "Gangoobai movie preview". glamsham.com. 2013-01-11. Retrieved 2013-07-05. 
  5. ↑ IANS (2013-01-11). "Good to see actors of our age getting lead roles: Sarita Joshi". Zee News. Retrieved 2013-07-08. 
  6. ↑ Shakti Shetty (2013-01-11). "Movie Review: Gangoobai". MiD DAY. Retrieved 2013-07-05. 
  7. ↑ Nandini Ramnath (2013-01-11). "Film Review: Gangoobai: A fairy tale measured in six yards". Live Mint. Retrieved 2013-08-01. 

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