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Posted: 7 years ago

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Guys

First session is done. Few Mumbai and Dubai critics will have their reviews out very soon.

The 2nd one is was actually premiere. Journos mostly watching the 2nd one.

Himesh Mankad's colleagues saw it and he told most of them loved it. Awesome 2nd half. but 3 of them were saying best performances so far this year

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#October is a beautiful story of love, just like the flower shuili, also known as parijat or , whose fragrance stays with you long after it has bloomed for a short while at night and fallen down in the morning. It's @Varun_dvn's best, so far.

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So happy and relieved to read the fab reviews.

Shoojit & Juhi-we love you.

Varun and Banita-you are so blessed :)

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@ShoojitSircar da has this rare talent of bringing out the brilliance of an actor and oh so naturally! Every character of #October is beautifully written..each & every actor has done such great justice to it. Simply beautiful!!!

vajir singhVerified account @vajir

@Varun_dvn has definitely come of age with #October. While one compliments @ShoojitSircar for the brilliant casting, Varun is outstanding in the film. The student ain't a student anymore. He has matured as an actor & makes this film a must watch. Jr D Is Sr D now :)

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#October is so very real and you end up connecting with every scene. The human relations have been depicted in the most real manner & all credit goes to the team #October. Kudos!!!

siddharth hussain @hussainsid

@Varun_dvn you are simply brilliant in #October so believeble,u have not acted but lived the character , must watch film , ur best till date

Mera Varun 😭❤️

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Varun and Banita are sweet together, wish she would've promoted more.

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Watchd/experienced @ShoojitSircar 's poetic @OctoberFilm2018 . Impressd by the range of the VickyDonor team of @writeonJ & Shoojit for emotionally-rich October is way way diff. Applaud your brave choices @Varun_dvn . Interstng debut by @BanitaSandhu . Loved #GeetanjaliRao.

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Editors/critics of aajtak, telegraph, dna, indian express and midday liked the film

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This movie gives me Lootera type vibes, hope it does better BO than that. All the best Varun 👍🏼

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The October Fragrance Lingers On...

Movie Review

By Manju Ramanan LAST UPDATED APR 12, 2018 28 0

Star cast : Varun Dhawan, Banita Sandhu, Gitanjali Rao

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Directed by : Shoojit Sircar

Screenplay : Juhi Chaturvedi

Rating 4 out of 5

October is a shrine in the film. How you would ask? It is a month when the parijaat' flowers in their orange pants, fall upside down and create fragrance.

The flowers are rarely plucked. They are usually gathered from the ground in the mornings. The female protagonist in the film Shiuli played by the beautiful Banita Sandhu loves the flower and the symbol of the flower keeps appearing in the film in various contexts like a poem's refrain.

Like the life of a beautiful flower that blooms to enthrall and cheer us silently, some lives bloom and wither away into oblivion. Varun Dhawan's character Dan catches that oblivion' and brings it to light and life by enshrining it in memory.Set against a five star hotel trainee's life, the film explores emotions in a very fine and tender manner. At various places in the film, the camera zooms into flowers adding to its cinematic language.

Varun Dhawan's best performance till date he plays Dan, a freedom loving hotel management trainee who is shocked by an accident and tries his best to solve the problem in the way he knows best by being there for the family. He is the breath of fresh air in what would be an otherwise sombre movie. Humour flows effortlessly in the ICU or between tubes and oxygen cylinders with his childlike curiosity and a near obsessive motive to set things right.

An acknowledgement of the transience of life, the film takes us to the fine world of emotions and the value of friendship and love expressed in different ways that of a friend, a silent lover, a sister, mother interspersed with a whole lot of hospital scenes.

Love, commitment, treating a loved one with greater love and enshrining that love in his heart forever, Dan is totally endearing. He touches your soul by being his vulnerable self. He has no pretence and he doesn't care to impress he is all soul without caring to dress it up with decorum. Banita Sandhu emotes the film with her large limpid eyes.

If you are looking for pace as in speed, the film will slow you down. It will engage you to look at the fine nuances that the film-makers create. It is a real film about real life situations and how some of us discover love, our own emotions, deep empathy and compassion in the most trying of situations.

A film that leaves behind a lasting fragrance..

http://filmfaremiddleeast.com/october-movie-review-the-october-fragrance-lingers-on/