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Ravi Jadhav, known for his path-breaking Marathi movies like Balak Palak, Rege and Natarang, has chosen a bold subject for his film Nude.
Nude is the story of Yamuna (Kalyanee Mulay) who hails from the Konkan region of Maharashtra and stays with her husband and son. Notice, how the main character of the movie has been named after a river, promising fluidity and being made dirty by humans. After her husband cheats on her, she leaves the village with her son and migrates to Mumbai. She stays with her aunt, who works as a nude artist at JJ School of Arts. Due to a financial crunch and encouragement from her aunt, Yamuna also starts working as a nude artist so that she could support her son and his education.
The trailer shows how Jadhav has resorted to the kind of artistic visual narration that he used in his last film Mitraa (which was one of the four short films in Bioscope, 2015). The scene where Mulay pulls out the mangalsutra from her neck and the beads fall on the ground is symbolic of breaking the shackles of societal norms. It symbolises the commencement of the journey of an independent woman without the social compulsion of being a ‘married woman’. Naseeruddin Shah plays the narrator and an artist.
This movie along with S Durga was banned at the International Film Festival of India in Goa. However, it has been cleared by the censor board and will on Arpil 27.
Here’s the trailer: