Once Again (2018 film)

Once Again is a 2018 Indian romantic drama film written and directed by Kanwal Sethi.[1] Starring Shefali Shah and Neeraj Kabi, the film follows two middle-aged people, one a famous actor, another a restaurateur, falling in love with each other.[2][3] Bidita Bag, Rasika Dugal, Priyanshu Painyuli and Suparna Marwah appear in supporting roles.[4]

Once Again
Directed byKanwal Sethi
Produced byHolm Taddiken
Ajay Rai
Sanjay Gulati
Alan McAlex
Arno Krimmer
Leis Bagdach
Written byKanwal Sethi
StarringShefali Shah
Neeraj Kabi
Bidita Bag
Rasika Dugal
Priyanshu Painyuli
Music byTalvin Singh
Additional Music : Georg Siebert
CinematographyEeshit Narain
Edited bySøren B. Ebbe
Anja Siemens
Andreas Wodraschke
Production
company
Neufilm
JAR Pictures
Crawling Angel Films
Ascending Films
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • 1 September 2018 (2018-09-01)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

The film was originally written in German since Sethi is Indian-German; Later it was translated in English and Hindi.[5] It won the best project award in Work-in-Progress Lab at the Film Bazaar in Goa and later also other awards.[6] Shah also sang a song for the film.[7] Once Again was released on Netflix on 1 September 2018 and also had a limited theatrical release in metro cities on December 8.[8][9] It has been also released in Germany by Arsenalfilm and France with great reviews from the critics.[10]


Plot

Amar is an ageing film star. A famous and wealthy man, he lives alone in Mumbai, a city of 15 million souls, the city of dreams. Tara, a widow, runs a small restaurant with the help of her son, who delivers Amar's meals. Tara has never seen Amar - except on the big screen. What began by pure chance a year ago has now turned into a ritual: for hours on end they talk to each other on the phone. Until one day, when Amar sets out to meet Tara in the flesh.

Cast
  • Shefali Shah as Tara Shetty
  • Neeraj Kabi as Amar Kumar
  • Bidita Bag as Meera, Tara's daughter
  • Rasika Dugal as Sapna, Amar's daughter
  • Priyanshu Painyuli as Dev, Tara's son
  • Mridanjali Rawai as Kiran, Dev's fiancee
  • Suparna Marwah as Kiran's mother
  • Bhagwan Tiwari as Ashok, Amar's driver
  • Anushka Sawhney as an actress
  • Prabhat Raghunandan as a director
  • Karim Hajee as a producer
  • Suchitra Tyagi as a reporter
  • Amit Chakrabarty as the bank manager
  • Narender Jatliy as a cook
  • Sameer Jani as restaurant server
  • Sanjay Bhatia as restaurant client
  • Zarin Variava as restaurant client
  • Brijesh Karanwal
  • Navtej Johar as a dancer (cameo)
  • Anil Panchal as a dancer
  • Chandra Shekhar as a street artist
  • Suruchi Sharma as a street artist

Reception

The film was loved by the critics as well as by the audience and was for many weeks on the top of popular list of Netflix. Famous film critic Ajay Brahmbhatt twitted immediately after watching the film : "From trailer I was guessing Once again must be lyrical film." After watching I will say its more than lyrical. It's a wonderful love story Bhawana Somaaya a Film critic wrote "saw a sensitive film Once Again must watch for all who are not so young and in love super performances from the lead." Sabash K. Jha wrote "Just finishes watching Once Again is like well cooked dish it acquires flavourful composure in a slow burn enriching fulfilling. Shefali and Neeraj are magnificent".[11]

Sankhayan Ghosh from Filmcompanion said that Director Kanwal Sethi has a keen eye for detail. While The Lunchbox shows us how they fall in love, how they carry out their relationship over letters slipped into the dabba, and ends with the first time they decide to meet, when Once Again begins, Amar and Tara have already found each other .[12]

Rahul Desai from The Hindu said: Two hearts in the same space, cornered into a huddle by the vacuum facing them. Much of the quiet, stream-of-consciousness film explores their hesitance to recognise these signs of their spatial dynamics (The Hindu)[13] Trisha Gupta writes in India Today; Once Again artfully depicts a middle aged couple drifting into love. Unlike the plotted safety of Ritesh Batra's film Lunchbox though, Tara and Amar meet several times, letting the charmed flame of their phone banter flicker into unscripted disappointment.[14] Dipti Kharude of The Quint reviewed: "The way the camera tenderly caresses Shefali in the film, the subtlest shifts in her character's emotions become discernible."[15]

Ipshita Mitra of The Wire observed that the film "shows the coming together of two disparate yet similar stories of separation and despair woven by two broken middle-aged people like patchwork on the fabric of survival."[16] JA Ganesh Nadar of Rediff.com wrote: "One needs a fair amount of patience to watch Once Again as it takes you through the complexities of love in the evening of the couple's lives."[17] Johnson Thomas of The Free Press Journal called it "a sensitively handled, evocatively performed adult love story that steals its romantic conceit from Lunchbox".[18]

Here are some more voices from film critics:

  • The beauty of this film is that a lot is left unsaid. Love is just hanging in the air (The Hindu).[19]
  • Once again its a love letter to Shefali Shah (The quint).[20]
  • To want companionship, romance, intimacy and yes, sex - is perfectly natural, but still fraught with the possibility of social censure, especially for a woman past a certain age. So Kanwal Sethi's atmospheric film Once Again gives us in Tara a rare Indian heroine: a woman who has walked the slow path towards recognizing her needs (Mumbai mirror).[21]
  • Kanwal Sethi's story is a well-made recipe that just about leaves you satisfied. The music by Talvin Singh is another beautiful current that runs through the background of the film. It is melancholic, and subdued just enough to not overpower the storyline itself (Cinestaan).[22]
  • Don’t insult this delicately drawn gem by comparing it with Lunchbox (National Harald).[23]
  • 'Once Again' Receives All The Love. First Critics, Now Netizens Go Gaga Over The Film (Republic word).[24]
  • This movie is a boat of love that flows through the river called Mumbai. It explores the sensitivity of love, with every scene it gets denser, giving out new emotions you might have not felt with all romance genre movies, but this one, it really touches your innermost core (kinkylittleboots).[25]
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References
  1. Magan, Srishti (28 August 2018). "This Brilliant Trailer Starring Shefali Shah & Neeraj Kabi Is Giving Us Major 'The Lunchbox' Feels". ScoopWhoop. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  2. Desai, Rahul (5 October 2018). "The semantics of Once Again". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  3. Pal, Chandrima (6 September 2018). "'I'm an incurable romantic': Shefali Shah on tackling love at all ages in 'Once Again'". Scroll.in. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  4. Chakraborty, Rimi (29 August 2019). "Shefali Shah & Neeraj Kabi's 'Once Again' Trailer Is Proof Food Always Brings People Closer". MensXP.com. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  5. Chakraborty, Juhi (31 August 2018). "The work that I want to do doesn't come every day and I have come to terms with it: Shefali Shah". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  6. "Neeraj Kabi, Shefali Shah explore old-world romance in Kanwal Sethi's 'Once Again'". The New India Express. 28 August 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  7. Dedhia, Sonil (1 September 2018). "Shefali Shah croons Jagjit Singh's nazm for her film Once Again". Mid Day. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  8. "Shefali Shah says 'Once Again'". The Hands India. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  9. "Arsenal Filmverleih - Jetzt im Kino". arsenalfilm.de. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  10. "Arsenal Filmverleih - Jetzt im Kino". arsenalfilm.de. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  11. "#onceagaintrailer hashtag on Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  12. "Once Again has some nice moments, but they are too few". Film Companion. 6 September 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  13. Desai, Rahul (5 October 2018). "The semantics of Once Again". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  14. "India Today Magazine Issue - Dated Sep 24, 2018". www.indiatoday.in. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  15. Kharude, Dipti (14 September 2018). "Review: Netflix's 'Once Again' Is a Love Letter to Shefali Shah". The Quint. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  16. Mitra, Ipshita (31 March 2019). "'Once Again' is About Discovering and Living Life in the Cinderella Hour". The Wire. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  17. Nadar, A Ganesh (31 August 2018). "Review: A film worth watching Once Again". Rediff.com. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  18. "Once Again movie: Review, Cast, Director". The Free Press Journal. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  19. Kumar, Anuj (14 September 2018). "The eyes have it". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  20. "Netflix's 'Once Again' Is a Love Letter to Shefali Shah". The Quint. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  21. Lohana, Avinash LohanaAvinash; Aug 28, Mumbai Mirror | Updated; 2018; Ist, 09:46. "Shefali Shah, Neeraj Kabi to team up for Indo-German love story titled Once Again". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 8 June 2019.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. "Once Again (2018) - Review, Star Cast, News, Photos". Cinestaan. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  23. "Once Again review: Don't insult this delicately drawn gem by comparing it with Lunchbox". National Herald. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  24. "'Once Again' Receives All The Love. First Critics, Now Netizens Go Gaga Over The Film". Republic World. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  25. "Once Again Movie Review: This movie is a boat of love that flows through the river called Mumbai". Kinky Little Boots. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
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