To Indian cinema enthusiasts, the name Nagesh Kukunoor needs no introduction. His movies tell the lesser known tales of India today that bear resemblance to a changing India, but at the grassroots level. Of Indians from villages and townships that still constitute 60% of the Indian populace. The middle class Indian stories, without the unnecessary- and unreal- drama that glossy television and glossy cinema-makers slap on. These are tales of modern India, both modern and Indian in the truest sense. These are mature stories, reflecting the writhing of ideological change, the tug-of-war between the demands for self and the traditions of service to others, the realizations of the consequences of societal divisions on caste and sex in current times.
Nagesh Kukunoor's Dor is one such classic.
Read more at Suite101: http://foreignfilms.suite101.com/article.cfm/bollywood-movie-review--dor-2006
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