
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'Trishna' tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. After an accident destroys her father's Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings fo... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'Trishna' tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. After an accident destroys her father's Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, they cannot escape the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education. Trishna's tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.
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| Tribune News ServiceRoger MoorePinto, stoic and stunning, demonstrates why this heroine and this tale of her woe still have power more than 150 years after it was written. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAs a melodrama, Trishna builds a hypnotic force. |
| CinemalogueTodd JorgensonIt's an ambitious and evocative effort derailed in part by a passive lead performance that keeps the material at an emotional distance. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsBrilliantly, Winterbottom takes the novel's two main male characters, Alec d'Urberville and Angel Clare, and makes them one. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertWhile the film never delves deep enough into its characters' emotions to be truly spellbinding, it's well worth seeing. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterThe issues of class privilege, inequality and masculine arrogance still resonate even if aspects of the novel have been twisted, misshapen and omitted on the way. |
| Village VoiceKarina LongworthIn the hands of Winterbottom, who has frequently shown a knack for infusing red flag sex with dread without sapping it of sexiness, the master-slave dialectic is made grossly, appropriately literal. The dialectic itself is never discussed. |
| TheWrapAlonso DuraldeBy combining the characters of Lord d'Urberville and Angel Clare into one person -- spoiled rich boy Jay (Riz Ahmed, Four Lions) -- Winterbottom strips the tale of a compelling second act, making things sag terribly in the middle. |
| NPRIan BuckwalterSomething in Hardy's tragic inclinations obviously appeals to Winterbottom; this is the third time he's adapted one of the author's novels, with the liberties he takes with the source material increasing each time. |
| Film-Forward.comKent TurnerNot wasting any time, Michael Winterbottom hurls Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel into the 21st century ... He's indebted to, but not weighed down, by the literary classic |