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Blue Valentine

Written & Directed by Derek Cianfrance and starred by Ryan Gosling and michelle williams is a beautiful movie which potrays the typical unsaid yet very powerful emotions that we deal in our married life which leads to stress among the husband and wife and sometimes ends in a seperation.....i felt it can only be made by someone who have very closely experienced such things....but must say not a script which is unique but definitely the performances are so real and passionate that you completely relate with whats happenning between the couple...very sensitive and emotional and treated and acted brilliantly this movie is a must watch for people who like emotional movies....On the lines of revolutionary road but very different in terms of treatment....

Atul Kulkarni a powerful actor

Sometimes when you expand your horizons beyond bollywood you actually come across the creative prowess in our country which is overshadowed by the 'glamor and power' of bollywood....whether it was the marvellous detailing in the telugu movie 'arundhati' or movies like 'Antoheen' in bengali or the marathi movie 'natrang' i saw recently on my flight to 'Bangkok'.....natrang set in the 1960's and 70's when lavani/nautaki's were very popular in rural maharashtra and the journey of a person played by 'Atul Kulkarni' whose passion leads him from being a poor but handsome farmer to an artist who transforms himself to play the role of a 'eunuch' in the skits....it portrays his initial dillemma, his fight to convince the world that he is just another man who plays a eunuch to follow his passion, how he faces the social hatred and mockery which includes his family too, how he loses everything in life in search of his passion inc...