October (2018)

Very disappointed :(

Masterful Cinema

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I like this movie very much. It story is such that it never slow down a bit. U feel connection to it watching this movie. But if there were happy ending to this story i would rated it 10. Varun u proved via this movie that u can play intense character very well.

October movie is a perfect paragon that reveals how every movie is a director's easel and that its actors only constitute a part of his/her storytelling. While Varun Dhawan has been known to make brainless movies in the past, I don't know if it simply implies the kind of image he wishes to be associated with, but doing a Shoojit Sircar flick turns out to be a fair makeover.It's a pleasant change even though the role Shoojit had in mind for him was apt for a guy like Varun. It requires him to be innocent and naive which he already is. The fact that he aces it all is a wonder given his past record. Shoojit paints him crude as Varun ends up becoming quite natural at his expressions. They seem very involved and oblivious to what's going on. It's good to see him in a super-realistic avatar that quite frankly suits him the most.The Theme of October MovieOctober movie is poignant. That being said, I would say it is not for everyone. If you are expecting a budding romantic love story to entertain you, then this movie is not for you. Do not go if you consider yourself a part of that audience.The flick cashes in on crushing selfless love that depicts a one-sided love story mocking somewhere at its pointlessness, the very futility of adhering yourself to a regime, to a lost cause. What is the very definition of love? It forces you to think hard as you try to place it inside a connotation. The perspective you have grown so fond of that you don't realize that it has become something else altogether.Above it all, October movie places itself precariously on the edge of doubt. It builds itself on a big maybe, but isn't that what most love stories today have been reduced to? A one-sided affair that keeps doing something for someone selflessly whilst the other one fails to acknowledge.The Plot and Cherishable Moments (Spoilers)Serving as the nub of October movie, in a contemporary backdrop, is a story of a 21-year-old Hotel Management trainee Danish 'Dan' Walia (Varun Dhawan), who isn't good at whatever he does. Placed in a contrasting image is Shiuli Iyer (Banita Sandhu), who is the ideal student of his batch.Everybody knows Dan, for the rebel he is, trying to mess things up, screw things up, talkative, yet with dreams to make it big. While he is just one of those friends who might come to help you when you need something, but you still can never take him seriously for the reckless image he has built in your mind, he still remains very relatable. Like that guy who is quite absent at everything for whom you never care to care about.Shoojit cares for that guy as we see him holding the perspective of a hero. Shiuli meets an accident falling from a slippery roof that puts her in a coma. As the world begins to forget her, that same guy whom we thought was not worth much, simply can't. He is by far the most sentient of them all. In just about two visits Dan begins to realize how badly she was affected. It kind of grows on him quickly as he begins to feel for her.Dan slips in hope for those who begin to despair. He chooses to give a dwindling life precedence over a pointless job. Dan is one of those rare breeds who we are missing in this world. A world has come shattering down for Shiuli's mother and the rest of her family, yet the rest of the world keeps moving on. How is that fair? Why don't they stop? Dan stops with them and literally becomes one of them.The OptimismThe optimism in a 21-year-old Dan is brutal when you see him hurt when Shiuli fails to recognize him. But the fact that he coherently makes it a secretive reward is just commendable. He turns it around and makes it into something good.It is something that's so rare. We get hurt by little things. Even when we know what to expect, and when we get it, it still crushes us, so much that we often just leave. But Dan just chooses to stay. He is always there eyeing a stranger or maybe just an acquaintance with hope.How much world is he yet to discover? How much of it is he yet to see? Yet he chooses to be, playing his age like it ain't a number but something very important.Dan tries to remember what Shiuli was psyched about - night jasmines that only grew in the month of October. He brings them to her and suddenly she is resuscitated. She begins to respond even in a coma. Although it fills you with hope, October movie isn't akin to some old Bollywood flick where the actress would spring to life owing to something the hero would do.Instead, it is forever bolstered on all the lines that the doctor produces. It simmers in pandiculation around reality, saying this is what happens. It's no miracle. The way the flick looks into your eyes, it is simply bold.Painting the RealityI loved the reality of it all, that places us directly into the world of a young trainee.Shoojit depicts a regular 1 RK flat and how things are sieved in it. How bachelors compromise with everything while they are trying to earn a living.

I started thinking myself as Dan. Heart touching acting by Banita make the movie so appealing that I lost myself into characters. thanks to Dhawan and Banita and others who were behind the scene for your efforts to make this movie.

'October' is a gem of a movie! It's exhilarating, subtle, melancholic, darkly funny and so much more. A simple story (or the lack of it), October rises above the cliche of Bollywood love stories and depicts in its crisp narrative one of the most beautiful relationships ever shown in Indian cinema. Thank you Shoojit Sircar for this masterpiece.