Generational gaps often lead to communicational gaps, specially between a father and a son in our patriarchal society that preaches strong men who shouldn’t be emotional in front of others. And this constant hiding of pain often leads to bitterness despite having love and respect for each other deep inside.
These are certain issues ‘Shastry Virudh Shastry’ deals with when old grandparents start taking care of their young grandson by taking him away from his parents, living in the city, who are not able to give him the desired attention due to their jobs.
While the urban couple loves their child, the cutthroat world forces them to have jobs to pay the bills which leads to neglect. On the other hand is an old man of principles who cannot handle this neglect. There is a constant tussle between the grandfather and the father and in the process it’s the kid and the women in the family who suffer.
To make matters worse they drag the matter to court over the custody of the child when the father gets an opportunity to build a career abroad and wants to take his child along but the grandfather thinks the parents are not yet ready for the responsibility. What follows is an emotionally charged set of events that makes you feel for both the grandparents and parents at different points, neither of them is perfect and both are flawed. If and how they overcome this and let their love for each other and the kid win over everything else is the story of ‘Shastry Virudh Shastry’.
A film by Nandita Roy and Shiboprasad Mukherjee, ‘Shastry Virudh Shastry’ is the Hindi remake of their Bengali film ‘Posto’. The films stars Paresh Rawal, Neena Kulkarni, Shiv Pandit, Mimi Chakraborty (in her Bollywood debut), Manoj Joshi, Tiku Talsania and more.
If you are into intense, relatable and heart wrenching emotional dramas, ‘Shastry Virudh Shastry’, currently available on both Jio Cinema and Netflix, is your pick.
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