Dor (2006)

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Dor is one of its kind..yet another masterpiece from Nagesh Kukunoor! It is a powerful story of love, friendship, trust, sorrow, laughter...you name an emotion, and you will probably find it somewhere in Dor! The storyline is strong..characters well-etched! It is a tale of going above and beyond for the one you love.The main protagonists Zeenat and Meera are as different as chalk and cheese! Zeenat is a strong-willed girl, who makes her own decisions, and is willing to bear the consequences. On the other hand, Meera comes from a traditional and orthodox background, and is the ideal obedient daughter-in-law to her obstinate in-laws! Her only ray of hope is her loving husband! Throughout the movie, we can see that each of these women has her own share of obstacles to overcome..and how they cross the hurdles in their path. Comic relief is provided by the Behrupiya..and his mimicry skills are worth applauding! Gul Panag is excellent as Zeenat. Ayesha Takia is very endearing as Meera. Shreyas Talpade has done a swell job as the "Behrupiya". He sure has a carved a niche for himself in Bollywood! The other cast is apt, and each character is well created and justified. The music is very good, and well-suited to the story.All in all, once again, an excellent piece of work from Nagesh Kukunoor!

I was finally able to get my hands on what was being hyped as possibly the best film of 2006. When there is so much hype I immediately become a skeptic - on the lookout for any flaws. So I watched this film in no complacent frame of mind - no way was I simply gonna like it because others did. Three hours later, here I am compelled to write a few lines about this film.The story is simplistic - Zeenat (Gul Panag) and Aamir (Rushad Rana) marry in remote Himachal Pradesh against his parents wishes and then he goes off to Dubai. In the meantime, far away in Rajasthan, Meera (Ayesha Takia) and Shankar (Anirudh Jayakar) are married and he is getting ready to go off to Dubai. The thread is being spun.. Meera and Zeenat go through many months of separation from their spouses, living for the monthly phone call, the letters. Then one day the unthinkable happens - Meera is told Shankar is dead, Zeenat told that her husband stands accused of the murder and must die unless the widow of the deceased signs a form saying she forgives him. Zeenat does not know who the wife is but is of indomitable will and sets off on a long journey to find her and convince her to sign the piece of paper. The thread is now being pulled together.. With the help of a Behroopiya (Shreyas Talpade) Zeenat eventually finds Meera, and slowly begins to get close to her. The thread is now being woven into a fabric of friendship.. Eventually Meera finds out that Zeenat was using the friendship to get her to sign that piece of paper and rejects the friendship. The fabric is now about to be rent apart... Meera's life is in turmoil as her husband;s family feels acute need for the money he would send home each month. Will Meera realize exactly what gift Zeenat has bestowed on her? Will Zeenat be able to save her wrongly accused husband? The movie has no clichés, no pat answers, no hackneyed situations, and in the end we are left with an overwhelming sense of the triumph of humanity.Nagesh Kukunoor wrote and directed a masterpiece in Dor. The film never drags, never leaves you incredulous, and is sometimes saddening, but in the end extremely heartwarming. It is extremely feminist in its views, but not in a shrill way - it never preaches, just points the way. The characters of Zeenat and Meera are drawn in a masterly way, you feel for both, understand both, sympathize with both, want to be like both - yet they are as different as chalk and cheese. The performances are outstanding - I am hard-pressed to pick favorites between Gul and Ayesha. Where Ayesha charms with her childlike simplicity, her quiet fortitude, and her occasional bouts of mischief, Gul sneaks into your heart with her strong but gentle nature, her quite strength of will, her single-minded belief that her husband cannot be a killer. Shreyas Talpade is charming as the thief/mime/mimic/man of many talents! He takes on every filmi hero known to us, changes costumes at the drop of a hat and is charming, cunning and vulnerable.Outstanding moments in the film include Ayesha's finding out her husband is dead, Gul's telling Ayesha who she is and why she is really there, the grandmother telling the mother that one day she too will be on this side of the door, Ayesha's dancing to You are My Sonia in widows's garb, the dance in the desert, too many others to name. The music is excellent, the songs filled my heart and pleased my mind. I am drunk on the feel of this film.This is a keeper and the film to watch when you are feeling blue. It will take away your sorrows and make you believe in the joy of being human.

there are lots of movies made in bollywood. but few are real movies, movies which make u feel human, the stories which can happen in life. Stories which touches the cord and makes u feel the agony running on the reel on a wide 70 mm screen. but alas in India there are really few movies made which shows the glimpse of talent lying untapped. Dor is a beautiful movie because it touches the revolution undergoing in India..and what a brilliant place to choose Rajasthan..to depict the silent suffering woman coming up to terms of life. Though i am a fan of Nagesh from the day i watched Hyd Blues...but Iqbal and Dor just boldly defies the big budgeted melo dramas having no real worth of a movie. This one is for the people who like to see their movies as a fully cooked good meal and you relish the taste long after the food is gone.

I am a movie buff, and I haven't seen better film than this one in past 2-3 years. Each and everybody has acted so well, it is hard to pinpoint. Acting by Ayesha Takia, Gul Panag and Behrupia- Shreyas Talpade is awesome. While watching movie, I felt I was totally immersed inside. It leaves viewer with deep message drawn by film. The background, the simplicity, the intensity, the desperation and the reality touches heart. Hats off to the director who made this non-commercial movie. This movie should get place in Oscars.One of the rare movies that cannot be seen these days in the Indian Movie Industry. Performance of Gul Panag (As Zeenath) and Ayesha Takia (As Meera) has been exceptional and are major highlight of the movie. Story of the movie narrates around 2 newly married women, one from Himachal Pradesh and other from Rajasthan. Most part of the movie has been shot in the desert areas of Rajasthan. Gul, formerly Miss India (1999), and Ayesha, Modern Day Actress, have reached important milestone in their career by selecting this performance oriented role and also doing good enough justice to their roles with performance. Screenplay of the movie has been framed really well, as and when the movie passes by it increases interest in the audience how the movie proceeds from there on. One of the rare in the current modern era.