‘The Husbands of Rosario’ Netflix Movie Review - Surprisingly Good

When I first read the title, I thought this was going to be some murder movie. But it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. At the center of the premise is Rosario, a pre-school teacher turned children’s book author who is obsessed with an actor named Yogi. She is so obsessed that she knows everything about him, and for each milestone, she brings him a cake. Finally, one day, Yogi asks her out and they start dating. One thing about Yogi that we must know is that he gets into the skin of the character. Once he starts playing a role, he thinks of him as his life, and in real life, he turns into that. From what I feel, when he proposed to Rosario, whom he lovingly calls a Sari, he was still in his character of a lover boy, which he is presently playing for a movie. She accepts the proposal, but sadly, tragedy strikes and they meet with a car accident. In the accident, Sari, who was pregnant at the time, suffers a miscarriage, and Yogi develops a fear of never driving again.

In all this time, this mania of getting into the skin of the character continues when the couple recovers. For example, when Yogi was playing a role about dogs, he turned into a dog and ate like a dog. Then, when he was playing the role of a priest, he became celibate.  Not to mention, when he was playing the role of a gay man, he actually turned gay and got intimate with his co-star off-camera. While professionally, this sounds great, personally, this can get problematic for his wife. And it did get so. Sari has to deal with all this psychotic behavior for every movie he does. What’s even stranger is that for Yogi, his entire life became a game of pretense. When the couple suffered a miscarriage, Yogi brought home two dolls- a boy and a girl and suggested that Sari should treat them as their own children. So now the couple was feeding, bathing, and reading stories to them.  But things changed when Yogi was offered the role of a killer. This made me very alarmed, and I was curious to see what Sari does. By now, Sari knew the implications of these roles on their married life. She knew that if she were not anyone else, there was a chance that she might be the one who could be killed. What will Sari do now? How will she save herself? Most importantly, how will she get Yogi out of this role and his overall mania?

Now, coming to the accessing part, The Husbands of Rosario deals with something profound. It deals with topics of grief, self-finding, and family issues. Men like Yogi are scary. For a character, they can forget everything. Somewhere, this is borderline split personality. Yogi doesn’t know who he truly is. And how will? He is always in character. So when it comes to plot, it is guaranteed to be very interesting.

One slight issue that I found in the movie is that somewhere, the scenes are dragged for no reason. Though prolonged dialogs become slightly irritating. It's like you have understood the point the makers want to convey. Also, some scenes take a while to understand what actually happened. For example, Rosario tries to tell us how she lost her sister. Now that was one area that I didn’t quite understand.

Overall, I found the storyline very interesting. It was something that we hadn’t seen in a while, and it is a very important topic too. Ignoring the minor drawbacks, the movie is worth watching. The pacing is fast, so you won’t get bored easily.

Final Score- [7/10]
Reviewed by - Neerja Choudhuri
Follow @NeerjaCH on Twitter
Publisher at Midgard Times