Bipin Nadkarni

Review Of ZEE5’s Darbaan: Artistically Imagined, Gently Executed Good Piece Of Cinema

Darbaan (ZEE5) Starring: Sharib Hashmi, Sharad Kelkar, Rasika Dugal, Flora Saini and Harsh Chhaya Directed by Bipin Nadkarni Rating: **** There is something about Rabindranath Tagore’s stories that lends itself to great cinema. Darbaan is not a great film. But it’s a very good piece of cinema. Artistically imagined and gently executed, it has the very accomplished Sharib Hashmi playing a simple caregiver in a feudal family ( the story is translocated from the end of zamindari to the takeover of the coalmines in Dhanbad in the early 1970s) whose life is a li | Click Here...