Review: Shakuntala Devi: add up to one watch in one go...the sexiest feminist and the mom..
Shakuntala Devi Swedish author Ingmar Bergman in his 1978 classic Autumn Sonata created a charming conflict of emotions between a renowned classical pianist and her fairly average daughter, who drowns under the fame of her illustrious mother. Many prolific filmmakers around the world have used Bergman's film as a textbook to explore relationship-related themes that a famous mother can share with a daughter who longs for a normal life. In India, random memory would bring back the brilliant 1994 drama by Bengali esthete Rituparno Ghosh, "Unishe April" (April 19). In "Shakuntala Devi", director Anu Menon uses a similar tactic while dissecting his theme, in much more current language. Shakuntala Devi was a phenomenon. She was also a mother and a wife. Menon takes an interesting approach to analyze how the phenomenon was born at the expense of the mother and the wife. The idea becomes a reality through a narrative that unfolds wid...