Shot in 2005,
Sunglass (
Taak Jhaank in Hindi) never saw a theatrical
release during Rituparno Ghosh’s lifetime, and the grapevine has it that
the filmmaker had a row with Planman Motion Pictures, which held up the
film until the state government intervened and premiered it at the 19th
Kolkata International Film Festival. Whenever I asked him about
Sunglass, Rituparno was visibly annoyed, and asserted, ‘I am not
bothered whether the film is released or not; I have outgrown that phase
of my career long back…I do not make such films anymore…’ Yet, Sunglass
is his most light-hearted film; his sense of humor, which informs many
of his serious films, imbues almost every frame with a delightfulness
which is indeed rare. Towards the end of his career, Rituparno was
gradually shifting into darker themes and controversial subjects and the
‘merrymaking’ in
Sunglass appeared escapist to him. Discourses on
death, loneliness, betrayal, parallel sexualities, and the pains of
inhabiting the periphery undercut his later films in such a way that
happy endings had begun to appear much too Utopian to him...
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http://www.cinemachronicles.in/rituparno-ghoshs-sunglass-review/
