sudipta bhawmik march opportunity watching mira nair's latest film namesake film officially premiered earlier evening attend producers film kind arrange couple seats special screening museum moving images included session director mira nair surprise guests tabu irfan khan participant filming process limited role subroto mesho curious final result picture call screening mira asked film sort speechless answer great wonderful reaction figure feelings film give mira answer figured thoughts answer feel watching film lonely rainy afternoon leafed pages family photo album album spans generations parents children captured frames turn page glimpses life past image changed years fleeting memories hail storm feel lost moments felt watching namesake film family album photo album ganguli's feel difference subjects photos alive talk move laugh join watching silently hugging album close heart eyes closed remember pictures captured camera film ashoke tells gogol realizes forgotten camera shoot journey remember life mira's film inspires remember journey follow bliss mira admitted style film inspired photographs masters raghu raghubir singh mich epstein dayanita singh showed guess capture period spanning generations form jump period period city city extreme ease turning page album characters change change trouble filling gaps story surprises suspense thrill profound philosophy solitude quietness deeply felt sorrow bliss film starts ashoke's story switches ashima's story transforms gogol's story jitters natural progression hollywood filmmakers dare undertake unconventional screenplay structure mira unconventional pays homage satyajit ritwick ghatak film imbibed film lyricism visual exuberance ghatak rare part world scenes strongly remind ray's works apur sansar ritwick's meghe dhaka tara cast supriya choudhuri unforgettable nita meghe dhaka tara special role made utter unforgettable line embrace forget past shoots great cities world kolkata york sensitivity care mahanagar jana aranya kudos fred elmes film free imperfections distract feel time limit hours imposition film kind issues explored characters developed guess compromises made verdict film pundits world criticisms argumentative indians bengalees bring adda table namesake dearest films date 