New Delhi: Bengali cinema has come of age but a few more steps towards something new would not hurt. While on one hand they regularly dish out the commercial fare, they also pull out an occasional gem from the everyday and the common place. However, when it comes to relationships " as experimental and bold Bengali movies have tried to be " they are still a tad bit stereotypical and...
01:33 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Srijit Mukherji calls his 'Baishey Shrabon' a dark and violent thriller. Dark it is, but so stunningly dark. The way Kolkata streets melt in with Goutam Ghosh's poetry and then washes away with the rains that are so common to the city - leaves a little bit of Kolkata in every heart watching the movie. In the very first shot, the camera follows a serial killer navigating the...
08:34 AM, Oct 01, 2011
Let me start with the story of a teenager some twenty years back. He loved and wanted to study literature. His academician parents were wiser " "There is no future in General stream that too Literature". The boy grew up believing that he probably didnt have the merit to pursue arts. Watching Nandita Roy and Shiboprasad Mukherjees debut film Ichchhe (meaning 'wish'), I was suddenly reminded of that boy whom...
03:59 PM, Aug 02, 2011
As a film critic, it bogs me no end when I discover that a director (Animesh Roy) who perhaps began a film with hope in his heart and dreams in his eyes, loses interest in it and allows it to be shot, edited and screened on its own steam. What ‘steam’ is left when the acting cast is drawn at random from anywhere and everywhere with just two familiar faces...
05:43 PM, Aug 14, 2010
Sara Raat is produced and directed by Ranjitmul Kankaria. It is the celluloid adaptation of a novel of the same name by noted litterateur Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay (1901-1976) who was himself a screenplay writer and director. Beginning with
Patal Puri (1935), Mukhopadhyay went on to direct 16 more feature films spread over a span of two decades. Published in 1959,
Sara Raat was a very popular novel and raised a lot...
05:01 PM, Aug 10, 2010
Quick on the heels of Jeet’s comeback project
Wanted, Ravi Kinnagi presents him with a completely new screen image in
Josh. Has Jeet been able to live up to this faith? Yes, yes and yes. As Indra, he invests life into the varied shades of the character that covers light romance, song-dance numbers, drama, melodrama and action. The story is practically coming out of our ears with slight permutations of...
03:02 PM, Aug 06, 2010
So we have seen all the revenge-action flicks we possibly could. But what can one do if scriptwriters and directors have run out of ideas and fall back on routine stuff churned out again and again and yet again? We hardly have much choice but to watch and extract some entertainment from the stuff that is handed out in somewhat different presentations.
Target, as the name suggests, is a drama...
02:40 PM, Aug 06, 2010
The story of
Musalmanir Galpo, unlike most Tagore creations, is very cinema-friendly, message-oriented and carries a strong woman-centric statement. It weaves itself around a young Brahmin girl called Kamala (Mumtaz Sorcar). As an orphan, this beautiful girl, talented in music is brought up by a kind uncle (Biplab Chatterjee) and an unkind aunt (Anamika Saha). Her life changes on her way to her husband’s home when a dreaded dacoit attacks...
01:18 PM, Jul 30, 2010
Buddhadeb Dasgupta's 2007 film, also called 'Ami Yasin Ar Amar Madhubala', has recently released in India ...
02:27 PM, Jul 26, 2010
The narrative is crowded with three slots without either logic or cohesion ...
03:00 PM, Jul 16, 2010
The actor once again proves that he is one of the best in the country ...
03:19 PM, Jul 06, 2010
A convoluted storyline ruin Shayan Mushi and Arpita Chatterjee's natural performance ...
12:58 PM, Jun 30, 2010
The film has captured the visual archeology of Dorji Para but has missed out on its spirit ...
03:28 PM, Jun 14, 2010
The film tests the patience of the Bengali audience ...
02:46 PM, Jun 14, 2010
The director structures a blend of the narrative and the anti-narrative ...
12:05 PM, Jun 10, 2010
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