Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

anishk-85830 The movie is pretty brilliantly directed, the first half of the movie actually sets the stage for the second half. It highlights the life of a common man in the suburbs of Kolkata, though the movie doesn't have any dialogues but it speaks thousands of words. Both the male and the female protagonist act exemplarily well.

Pranoy Dutta 'Asha jaoar majhe' (Labour of love) was not only a mesmerizing cinematic experience, it was like watching a poetry written by a camera. This film just put a whole new dimension of Bengali art-house cinema. A eighty-minute film without any words didn't surprise me, what surprised me was that I merely felt its absence. Director Aditya Bikram Sengupta's this celluloid sculpture has shown that visual storytelling is not only just a modulating factor, it can stand on its own. This film also pointed out that to depict that level of detailing you have to be honest with your story. Talking about acting, their (Basabdatta and Ritwik) hardest job was to not "act". That's why the whole movie was like I was following and observing two people. Though the film was about disappointment and despair of daily life, it also gave us a optimistic perspective at the end.

gnandan Often times we hear that movies are reflection of life. But, very few times we get to see movies truly depicting the exhaustion and monotony of life. In fact, the moviegoers don't want, neither do they expect it because it eat into their daily life; thus they go to movie theater to have fun, to feel elated and start afresh next day. However, "Asha Jaoar Majhe" is an exception. It lyrically (through sounds in environs) narrates you how exhausted and monotonous the life is in Kolkata. Indeed, it makes you feel exhausted and monotonous as you sit in the movie theater. Director has poked into the minute details and mannerism that describe the daily life in Kolkata of middle class people and has offered the viewers a microcosmic picture of it. It will invariably remind you of those who we often forget about amidst the 21st century glittering culture of going-to-mall and shopping-at-Big Bazaar, if not at Shopper's Stop.

ritzb86 Many of us, specifically people of Bengal residing out of Bengal , are in a habit of crying out loud most of the time saying "Ei Bangalir dwara ar kissu hobe na [ Nothing good ll happen by these Bongs ]". But then something like this happens and you start wondering - would it be possible by any other person apart from a Bengali !? I have my doubts."Labour of love" or "Asha Jawar Majhe" - it is nowhere close to the very idea of film that we usually have in our mind. The 84 min journey is mundane,monotonous,banal in all its senses - but then you ll realize it is just depicting a single day of our very own life which itself is of the same nature. This film has only two characters and none of them has a single dialogue. Because conversation is not mandatory to capture neither the repetitiveness of our daily chores nor those few special moments [ a window - one can say here ] for which we gather the energy to complete our hackneyed routine. The level of detail of this film - I could not recall a single colored Bengali film which have the same. When the camera unusually zooms in and lingers over the seemingly insignificant things - the cracked wall, the sunset, the clothesline, the revolving cycle - it surely test viewer's patience but also tells a story - a story where everyone of us is fighting our daily battle to survive ; Sorry , not "to survive" , but "to love". The whole slow-pace was just an intriguingly exquisite build-up for the last 5 poetic min, where we comes to realize that - yes, to cherish just a few moments of love, we are being able to continue our vapid journey; we are ready to be a "Labour of Love".Aditya Vikram Sengupta - What have you created!!!!NOTE: Not in a mood to go into the insipid details of direction,camera,cinematography,sound or acting cause if all these have not been perfect, THIS experience wouldn't have been created at the very first place.