Tatsam Mukherjee
Tatsam Mukherjee has been working as a film journalist since 2016. Having contributed to the Indian Express, Mint Lounge, India Today, Open magazine, his byline has also appeared in foreign publications like Slate, Al Jazeera and Juggernaut. He is currently based in Bangalore.
All reviews by Tatsam Mukherjee
| Director: | Jayant Digambar Somalkar |
|---|---|
| Cast: | Nandini Chikte, Taranath Khiratkar, Sangita Sonekar, Suyog Dhawas, Sandip Somalkar, Sandip Parkhi, Swati Ulmale, Gauri Badki, Mansi Pawar, Sachin Tonge |
| Writer: | Jayant Digambar Somalkar |
Sthal (A Match)
Drama (Marathi)
Underlines the Humiliating, Transactional Nature of Arranged Marriages in a Patriarchal System
Wed, November 8 2023
Debutant director Jayant Somalkar emerges as one more voice in Marathi cinema, telling an old story in a new and engaging way.
Early on in Jayant Digambar Somalkar’s Sthal – four men can be seen discussing a woman’s complexion. “She seems fair, doesn’t she?” one of them asks, only to be shut down by the other: “It is all make-up. Didn’t you notice her elbows? They gave it away.” The woman, actually a young girl named Savita (Nandini Chikte), barely out of her teens, in her final year of college pursuing B.A (Sociology), is being looked at as a prospective bride. Those men could be talking about livestock. Such is the ‘marketplace’ for arranged marriages – especially in India, where such casual indignities are fair game.
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