I was endeared to her character instantly - "Ashima means without borders, limitless". I saw in her what I see in my grandmother, devotion, sincerity, and most of all, acceptance. Her performance as Ashima was so realistic to me.
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Khan was outstanding as Ashoke, this is the first movie of his I have watched, and I now see what makes him such a admirable, first-rate actor. They also had a fantastic chemistry, which was subtle and pure. They were, for me, the finest performances, the REAL stars. Irrfan Khan and Tabu, two of the finest actors in Indian Cinema, perfected their roles and brought life into their characters. The performances of the main characters - the Ganguli family, have been some of the most powerful performances for me to watch on screen. And just watching the movie, I was given an insight of what many people, including even my parents, must have been through.
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But I found the The Namesake is not a nationality war, but a mature and understanding tale, full of tolerance and experience. We get a look into cultural clashes, traditional values versus Americanized, modern thinking. The Namesake deals with loss, life, relationships and the main characters evoke a collection of emotions which vary from gaiety to misery, pain to love. We then see Gogol pursuing his career as an Manhattan-based urban architect, and his personal struggle to find his own identity without letting go of his inherited background. We see Gogol as a teenager, his battles with his name, neither Indian or American, and the ridicule he suffers as an adolescent. The film then shifts perspective to Gogol's life. Gogol was named after Ashoke's favourite author Nicholai Gogol, and we learn that the name means a lot as the film progresses. Soon after the couple have two children, Sonia (Sahira Nair), and Gogol (Kal Penn). The change is difficult for both, especially Ashima, and she strives to adjust to her new life and the new culture she is now living in. The two then move from Calcutta, East India to Queens, New York essential as Ashoke must continue with his engineering career. The film starts with Ashoke Ganguli, (Irrfan Khan) a bookworm, marrying Ashima (Tabu), a trained classical singer. rAjOo Spoilers* I have wanted to watch this movie from the very beginning, but never actually got around to it, and now, after watching this last night, I wish I had watched it earlier. The Ganguli family will be destined to travel to India again soon - this time under very different circumstances - and after all have endured life-changing events. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, while Ashoke spends time traveling, and Sonia moves to California, leaving Ashima all her by herself. The second time they travel to India is when Gogol and Sonia are in their late teens, and after a memorable visit to Kolkata and then to the Taj Mahal, they return home. The family then buy their own house in the suburbs and travel to India for the first time after their marriage. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy, who they initially name Gogol, and a few years later both give birth to Sonia. The train meets with an accident, and after recuperating, Ashoke re-locates to America, settles down, returns home in 1977 to get married to aspiring singer, Ashima, and returns home to New York. While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol.
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