Mr And Mrs Iyer Essay

The film of Mr and Mrs Iyer, was directed by Aparna Sen. The story of the film is known as the how, in the midst of adversity, a young married Tamil Brahmin Hindu woman, who is from the orthodox family, with imagination and fortitude, risks her life to save the life of a young unmarried Muslim man. The process of this film entitles how they fell in love, their love unconsummated. Mr. and Mrs. Iyer" is a love story at heart - a restrained, subtle love story where the attraction between the lovers stems not from physical qualities as much as from an understanding for each other´s point of view.

From the beginning of the film, Mrs Iyer (Meenakshi), daughter of Mr Iyer (Subramani), and mother of not even a year, packing up for the journet that

Iyer, where she needed a help while an infant named “Santhanam” was weeping out loud, but she was quite rude and not willing to help her. But instead, the middle-aged lady insist Mrs. Iyer to feed the breast milk to her infant son, which did not happened. Then, Mrs. Iyer called Raja in English “Excuse me, are you listening?” Then she hands over the infant son to him while she prepares the food for the infant son, but he messed up while preparing, the bowl of the liquid splashed on the neighbor’s feet. Later on, Raja got up and helped by providing paper tissues, but as other passengers assumed that Raja and Mrs. Iyer were husband and wife. Raja then shifted his seat next to Mrs. Iyer for the convenience. Now, the infant son is fed with the food with happiness. Unexpectedly, there was a blockage and people were complaining on the delays, and some of the passengers got off the bus to release their tiredness. When the bus is stopped by an angry mob of Hindu extremists on the prowl for Muslims, a chill runs down Raja's spine. As the time passes by, Meenakshi is shocked to learn of Raja's background, which is totally different from her caste. She starts to maintain her distance from him. But fate has other ideas. Looking at the in human way in which Muslims are being killed, she can't help but save his life. She lies to the Hindu extremists, saying that they're a married Hindu