Saari Raat

At first glance Saari Raat seemed simple enough. A short film depicting the first night of a bride and her groom. The getting to know phase as I like to put it. It is indeed a simple story and yet the complexities of the characters not so much. The mentality, "its OK for me to do it but not so much for you" is blaringly disturbing and so in your face. Even as I said to myself that this mostly happens only in small towns and not with the educated lot, I knew I was being less than honest with myself. It is a phenomenon that we have witnessed again and again, be it in the cities, with the so called educated or that "phoren return dude". Dir- Parimal Aloke keeps the audience engaged throughout the narrative. The scenes are seamless and the actors have both done an incredible job in portraying the shy bride and her excessively chauvinistic husband. A great effort by Parimal Aloke and looking forward to seeing more of his work

After a long time watched a short movie which made an impact with just two characters,simple set and simple conversation between a husband and wife on their first night.This movie so beautifully puts forward the Irony of our Indian society in which women are treated like a body without any mind and soul and to what extent men can be chauvinistic. A commendable job done by Director Parimal Aloke who acted so naturally as a high headed Indian man and the last song in the movie sung by him is so touching. The actress plays the role of a coy bride to perfection showing the helplessness of women in this male dominated society. A BIG THUMBS UP to Parimal Aloke and his team for this movie.

It is one of those movies that you wish could have been a bit longer. The character of an Indian groom who doubts his wife's integrity has been beautifully played by Parimal Aloke in the context of the depicted Indian culture. The film successfully brings out the fact that in Indian society pre-marital affairs in case of boys are viewed very differently than for girls. Paru Gambhir plays a perfect role of a whimsical Indian wife. The acting of both Parimal and Paru are very natural and captivating. It is very interesting to watch Paru teasing Parimal about her relationship(s) before their marriage. Definitely a very different movie with a lot of character. Awesome movie.

Parimal and Paru did amazing job, well done for them!

Congratulations to everyone who worked on the movie set, too!

It's a good display of chauvinism and middle class, small town Indian mentality just like the description says.

The groom wanted to find out more about their respective pasts, the bride was reluctant at first but then she felt curious about her grooms 3 girlfriends.

I highly recommend it, enjoy in watching!

When I started watching this film, I had all the prejudice that one has while watching any short film these days. Its gonna be either about suicide, or Schizophrenia or just a boring Conversation of a couple after a break up.

As the film progressed, I kept on getting more engrossed in the way, Parimal Alok, the director of the film was revealing the layers one by one. The acting and the characterization were bang on no doubt, but even then it is tough to hold the attention if the film has nothing but just one location.

The story does indeed provide you with a lot of scope but, the real trick that the makers pulled off has to be "immensely awesome acting" , n personally, I consider that a Director has no other job to do other than first getting the Acting right.

I had no idea that, someone could take a page from an old story in Hindi literature and carve a gem out of it in 10 minutes.

Hats off to Parimal & Parul...