{"id":7047,"date":"2016-04-07T11:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T05:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2016-04-07T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T05:41:12","slug":"tribhanga-netflix-kajol-mother-daughter-relationship-womenhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=7047","title":{"rendered":"Tribhanga is that Film Which Makes You Call Your Mum and Say, \u201cI Just Wanted to Hear Your Voice\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\nT<\/span>here is this moment in the Netflix film Tribhanga<\/em>, the delightfully caustic (you have to follow her on Twitter to know why) Renuka Shahane\u2019s directorial and Kajol\u2019s OTT debut, that made me want to hit pause, extricate myself from under my 36 blankets (Delhi winters, you cruel beast), rush to my room, and\u2026 Call. My. Mother. Just to hear her dependable, reassuring voice complaining about whatever it is that was perplexing her that day.\n\nIn case you\u2019re wondering, and also because is it really even the internet without a spot of some entirely editable overshare?, the flavour of the month is my newly acquired red hair. Most of our conversations for the last three weeks have been peppered with loud sighs and pregnant pauses. My mother, I believe, is an artist. I don\u2019t know too many other women who can elevate the mere act of expelling air from their mouths into a multi-layered art form. I mean, I can practically touch the sharp notes of disapproval generously laced with disappointment and accusation. It\u2019s possible that I enjoy my mother\u2019s distrust of my flaming mop almost (probably more) than the hair itself.\n\nBut back to the \u201cOMG-I-need-to-call-mom\u201d moment in Tribhanga<\/em>. A shocked Anuradha (Kajol) has just learned that her estranged, award-winning writer mother, Nayantara (Tanvi Azmi) can no longer write, that she hasn\u2019t been able to write for several years now. Her visceral reaction to that revelation contains more horror than when she finds the same mother lying comatose in a hospital room, with no indication when or if she will ever come out of her coma.\n\nAnu knows, in the way only someone who truly knows<\/em> another can know, that the inability to write has likely been a far worse prison for Nayan than the brain fog that currently envelops her. As tragic as that moment is \u2014 imagine not knowing something so monumental \u2014 it also betrays an unacknowledged closeness between the pair. You can choose not to be a part of their life, but can you really ever unknow the parent whose eccentricities and behavioural vagaries form the tapestry of your own social DNA?\n\n

Tribhanga<\/em> and Shahane do a fine job of whetting your appetite for such moments of spectacular emotional depth and sincerity\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nThat moment reminded me of my mother\u2019s many sighs and silences. The passive-aggressiveness and violence in her pauses and inflections, placed strategically and executed with flawless precision for maximum emotional devastation, without even one unpleasant word being exchanged. It\u2019s a language that, I believe, women are particularly skilled at\u2026 In a world that often\u00a0 goes to extraordinary lengths to silence us, we have to be.\n\nTribhanga<\/em> and Shahane do a fine job of whetting your appetite for such moments of spectacular emotional depth and sincerity\u2026 And then leave you frustratedly hanging. Sigh.\n\nIf I had to sum up the movie in one sentence, I\u2019d call it an incomplete collection of quietly stirring scenes \u2014 the one where Anu realises that after a lifetime of trying not to, she\u2019s gone and done exactly what she most blames her mother for \u2014 stitched together with far too many drenched-in-nostalgia ones that, though bittersweet, never quite reach their intended destination. Delightful as Kajol is as the mercurial Anu \u2014 angry, abusive, vulnerable, strong, stormy, and sensitive, all within seconds of each other \u2014 I wish Shahane hadn\u2019t allowed Kajol\u2019s stardom to dominate a story that had the potential to be India\u2019s Lady Bird<\/em><\/a>. The movie belongs too much to Anu, not enough to Nayan, and far, far too little to Masha, Anu\u2019s traditional-as-they-come daughter played by Mithila Palkar. And minus the all-important context and POVs of the two generations that bracket her own, Anu\u2019s character often looks like it\u2019s simply floating around aimlessly \u2014 in turns growling at her mother\u2019s biographer Milan (Kunaal Roy Kapoor), reminiscing with her Krishna-devotee younger brother Robindro (Vaibhav Tatwawaadi), and generally being a don\u2019t-mess-with-me badass.\n\n

Filled with youthful arrogance that crumbles to horrified dust in middle age, when we realise we\u2019re a lot more like our mothers than we ever intended to be.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nIn the 36 hours since watching Tribhanga<\/em>, I\u2019ve recommended it to several close women friends despite its agonising flaws, simply for its arresting central premise.\n\nSo many of us have travelled the path Nayan, Anu, and Masha are walking on. Confident in our abilities to make better, different, more authentic choices than the ones made by our own mothers. Filled with youthful arrogance that crumbles to horrified dust in middle age, when we realise we\u2019re a lot more like our mothers than we ever intended to be. The tension between the self-loathing and relief that accompanies the realisation that our identities will always be tethered to our mothers in some unfathomable, invisible ways. Always needy for their approval. Aware of their mortality and the rapid march of time, while so much has been left unsaid, and terrified that the clock will run out before we work up the courage to form the words bristling in our breasts.\n\nMany of our mothers received suspicious no-reason-I-just-wanted-to-hear-your-voice middle-of-the-day calls after watching the film. Just for that, Team Tribhanga<\/em>, take a bow.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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