A poor woman's romance with the privileged son of a hotel owner leads to tragedy when she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.
11 July 1979
2 November 1967, Pune, Maharashtra, India
28 July 1986, New Delhi, India
18 October 1984, Bombay, Maharashtra, India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
2 April 1942, Patna, Bihar Province, British India
10 September 1972, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
June 30, 2013
Unfocused and easily forgettable, this drama shows that even a likable actress can't carry a movie that undervalues its characters.
July 26, 2012
Winterbottom has complete control of the film's look and feel, but the story seems to run away from him.
July 20, 2012
A rare unsatisfying swerve from an otherwise reliably provocative career.
August 03, 2012
Trishna engages the potent collisions of the rural and the urban, the poor and the rich, and considers how these interactions unfold in a romance and how they might also destroy it.
July 19, 2012
"Trishna" works largely on the strength of Winterbottom's clever updates of a century-old story.
August 07, 2012
Hit the books instead.
August 06, 2012
Things start off promising, but, by the time the final reel rolls, Winterbottom's too-detached style seems to be willfully wallowing in oversimplified misery.
August 07, 2012
An intriguing addition to the work of an erratic but always interesting filmmaker.
September 14, 2012
Trishna is an admirable effort, but it's too detached and disinterested in the viewer to make an impact. This is a tough film to get through, and even if one makes it to the end, there's little reward to be found.
August 02, 2012
Winterbottom's socially conscious, contemporary adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles is first-rate.
July 26, 2012
While the film never delves deep enough into its characters' emotions to be truly spellbinding, it's well worth seeing.
July 19, 2012
A loose but nonetheless pretty faithful recasting of Hardy's penultimate tragedy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
