Memories in March

Categorically this is an English movie by debutant director Sanjoy Nag. The interest for the movie had brewed within by watching it's teasers, especially the songs. A brajabuli humming by Subhamita was really rendering.
The story is definitely new, but nothing extra than what you guess from the trailor. A divorced woman, who has been upbringing alone her only son for last 10 years, comes down to the city where her boy was on his first job. But her trip is not a surprise visit. Her son has died in a car accident while driving as drunk from his office party. She is a workaholic, smart, matured woman but she is conservative on the other hand. She is seasoned with the roughness of life. She handles the situation very maturely. She has loads of grief, but that does not emerge out of the level of maturity. This portrayal has been complex, but awesomely done by veteran actress Deepti Naval. BUT, this kind of maturity perplexes our understanding of motherhood. Is it so easy to behave normal after loosing the only child for a mother?
The shock comes in a wrapping, as she finds her son's lover - the creative director at his office - a man. First the complexity of accepting the fact and then a fight between them for claiming the memories of the person no more. That's how the reaction of these two characters are depicted well and in this process, how she gets the touch of her could-have-been-extended-family. This part of the movie looked a bit loosely woven. This is definitely a modern issue. On-the-face, it may look stupid, but that's how creative medium mixes reality and imagination.
Off late, I could not remember an occasion where Raima Sen caused a disappointment by her acting. BUT, the shock came from Rituparno Ghosh. Though he is one of my favorite directors, but his screen presence was not at all enjoyable. His dialogues were really difficult to decode.
Moreover, to me he looked to be the weakest link of the movie. Partially also I blame the screenplay in the second half.
Above all the music was pretty contextual and soothing. Subhamita, Rekha Bharadwaj were brilliant. Debojyoti Mishra contributed one more gem of his composition.
Lastly I can not finish this without touching the topic of controversy between Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Rituparno Ghosh relating to this movie. No way, I could get convinced that the role enacted by Rituparno had a reason to claim national award! And as the movie is written by Rituparno as well, so it is very easy to imagine his role behind the scene for the entire project.
I get to believe the version by Buddhadeb, ...