Product Details

• Actors: Ayesha Takia, Shreyas Talpade, Gul Panag, Girish Karnad
• Directors: Nagesh Kukunoor
• Writers: Nil
• Producers: Sahara One Motion Pictures
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Eros Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: December 1, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000LMPM32
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,608 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dor- String along and enjoy, February 22, 2009

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This review is from: Dor (DVD)

Dor is the Hindi word for "string". And, paraphrasing James Hanley's tuneful composition, as one views&listens to this film: zing go the strings of one's heart.

Written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor and featuring Ayesha Takia, Gul Panag and Shreyas Talpade Dor is more, much more. Cinematographer Sudeep Chatterjee's eye for the pictorial image brings the screen to life with colorful scenery - moreover, every frame taken as individual stills would make for beautiful individual works of art ready to be framed and hung on a wall of an art museum or photography studio. "He composes and constructs stylised but simple images which don't scream for attention, but unassumingly add up to create the film's striking overall visual design."

Dor is about two women who come from diverse backgrounds and how fate brings them together. Quoting The Times of India: "Dor makes a strong feminist statement without being strident or shouting slogans. And all along, the riveting friendship between the two polarized women and the events that bring them together, keep tugging at your heart." In addition to encouraging women to follow their own desires, this film, in its low-key presentation, matter-of-fact juxtapositions Hindu and Muslim cultures without overtly making a fuss about it.

Ayesha Takia has extraordinary resonance in a quiet, realistic performance that goes deep into the complex character of newly- widowed Hindu Meera, continuing to show new facets of herself in a climactic confrontation scene when she reveals her true feelings to Gul Panag's Zeenat, a newly-recent Muslim bride. As her bold counterpart, Panag presents a strong female role model easy for Westerners to identify with.

Although critically well reviewed and winner of a number of prestigious awards, this film was a commercial failure in India. It is not your typical Bollywood film. It is a quiet, affective & effective motion picture. Its musical score is also more of an elitist one and for niche audiences.

Dor, as its title literally implies, is about a series of events tied or threaded together--or more precisely, the commonality of Indian women in pursuing their own desires and independence.

Do not miss it!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OMG! ...........thank you!, May 8, 2008

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J. Barker "finding the good stuff" (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dor (DVD)

I could go on and on about this... it is honsetly one of the best movies I have had the oportunity to watch in any language. Thank you... I will not hype this movie up. I will just tell you that if you are not moved, you were not watching.

Peace,

Joe

4.0 out of 5 stars A tragedy averted !, February 4, 2011

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SANJEEV HASTIMAL SANDH (Mumbai, INDIA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dor (DVD)

This is a Hindi movie. It is a story of 2 married women who do not know each other, but who become intertwined by fate. It is fate which has caused one tragedy and averts another.

The story, as narrated, is quite credible. The direction is perceptive and excellent. Hats off to Nagesh Kukunoor, the Director! Good acting by Gul Panag, Shreyas Talpade and Ayesha Takia.

Gul Panag lives in the mountains and has to make a long journey to desert country to find a stranger, Ayesha Takia, who, fate has decreed, has the power to grant mercy to Panag's husband. However, the story is not as plain as that. It depicts quite a unique episode which brings Panag to Takia. Panag is the reminder of Takia's misery, but they end up becoming friends.

It is about the fortitude of a woman and the courage and conviction of the other.

The background song stays with you well after you have seen the movie. The Director has put in a brief appearance in the movie.

This is quality Indian cinema and a `must see'.