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Jevon 2022-11-06 06:43:50
notes
One of the best movies about cross-cultural (immigrant) identity I have seen so far. The questions raised by the film are more interesting than the film itself.
My parents immigrated to India from the first generation and faced a culture and environment that was very different from that of my own...
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Idella 2022-12-10 08:01:47
The movie lacks many details that reflect emotions in the novel
The fragmentary emotions that can be experienced in the text of the novel have disappeared in the movie.
In the scene where Ashima received a call from his hometown late at night when his father died of illness, the actions her husband should do were completely out of order. In the novel, before...
Kharaj Mukherjee
Extended Reading
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Ashoke Ganguli: The camera! It is in the car. All this and no picture, huh? We just have to remember it then. Huh? Will you remember this day, Gogol?
Gogol: How long do you I to remember it?
Ashoke Ganguli: [laughing] Ah, remember it always. Remember that you and I made the journey and went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
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Ashoke Ganguli: For Gogol Ganguli- The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name.
