Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway

2023
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2h 24m

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7.3/10

11K

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Rani Mukerji in Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway (2023)

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An immigrant Indian mother's battle against the Norwegian foster care system and local legal machinery to win back the custody of her children.An immigrant Indian mother's battle against the Norwegian foster care system and local legal machinery to win back the custody of her children.An immigrant Indian mother's battle against the Norwegian foster care system and local legal machinery to win back the custody of her children.

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7.3/10

11K

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- 11 wins & 3 nominations total

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8novred-40508

It rips your heart out

Phew, the film touched me on many levels.

The first half was hard to bear as Rani Mukerji was very 'emotional', maybe a little bit over it.

Unfortunately, the focus here was more on the theatricality than on the essentials.

Thus, the viewer learns almost nothing about the Norwegian 'culture' of raising children.

As a mother, it is difficult to understand why it should not be okay for a child to sleep in the parents' bed or why it should be bad that children from Indian homes get a khola.

Also, it was not even illuminated that the husband was violent towards his wife - the viewer learns this at the very edge.

Many questions remained unanswered for me.

The second half of the film - back in India - offered a very different Rani.

Still fighting for her children, but less theatrical.

Then I would like to find it frightening how cultural differences have been dealt with in Europe.

Our society can only grow through diversity.

8KebbyPro

Captures the mother's perspective

This is based on a true story. In my opinion, it is easy to make the narrative quite boring while presenting true stories and cases since the audience is generally aware of the facts. But in this case, the narrative is quite entertaining and it keeps you hooked to your seat. There are quite a few tear-jerker moments, which is quite surprising since this is a known and well publicized story. I think the director was able to peep into the mother's psychology and treat the subject from her perspective, while also including the social commentary around her. The music does lend a good feeling to the story. Overall, it is worth watching with your family, specially if you stay overseas.

8chowbiswanath

Rating is not enough to rate such movie

This is not a movie it's a pain and unfortunate struggle of a Mother. Master Piece Movie played by remarkable actress and all time favorite Rani Mukherjee. Lots of emotions, eyes unable to hold my tears... Whole Team played good in the movie but Rani is RANI.

Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway is added to my all time favorite movie list. Our Bollywood have potential and this movie prove that. This movie has some gaps but it's story and Rani's acting overlap all of these. I enjoyed a lots from my heart. Thanks for making such a emotional drama movie. Hope in this way our Bollywood always provide us such master piece movie.

7sameerlodaya

Mothers power

Sameer lodaya

One has to see this movie for realising the mothers actual power and what can she do for her children

What a content to watch and that too a real story a big salute to the mother who fought so wisely to get her children back in a foreign land

The direction of aashima was very sharp and have shown the audiences the real pain of a mother went through whose children were snatched away from her and how she fought to get them back

Rani played very well with her Bengali accent mixed with little English Jim was wow for his small and strong role

Some good edit was needed in first half as it was going dull but they picked up very strong the second half ..good songs were missing ..little more pain and emotions was required..a experienced and strong female actor like Supriya Pathak was needed as a lawyer

A must must must watch.

8abhaysingh-72326

This movie is top notch.

A good story , top notch acting by all the crew and bow down to Rani Mukherjee she played character so well.i wish this movie a good luck.

I watched this movie because of previous knowledge of this case and movie doesn't disappointed me . Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway rests on Rani Mukerji's shoulder and she carries the film well .

Filmmaker Ashima Chibber's film Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway stars Rani Mukerji as Debika Chatterjee who is separated from her two young children by the Norway Children's Welfare Program on the pretext of bad parenting. Based on a real-life incident that took place in 2011.

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Following a preview screening for invited guests shortly before this film's general release, the Norwegian ambassador to India Hans Jacob Frydenlund claimed the movie was "a work of fiction" that contained "a number of factual inaccuracies".

Ambassador Frydenlund said in a statement: "Children will never be taken away from their families [in Norway] based on cultural differences described. Eating with their hands or having children sleeping in bed with their parents are not considered practices harmful to children and are not uncommon in Norway, irrespective of cultural background."

Despite this, two of the complaints, or 'charges', leveled against Sagarika Chakraborty (upon whom the character of Mrs Chatterjee is based) by Norwegian child welfare authorities were that she hand-fed her children and 'co-slept' with them in the same bed. In particular, the authorities concerned claimed that her feeding methods amounted to a form of force-feeding.