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Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan (2024)
A great children and family entertainer
Bheem and his friends from the village of Dholakpur time-travels 1000 years back to the village pf Sonapur to defeat the vicious demon Damyaan from being immortal and wreck havoc on innocent people.
Direction by #RajivChilaka and written by Niraj Vikram & Sridisha Dilip is good, based on the story by Richa Ingle Deo and Seeta, produced by Rajiv Chilaka, Megha Chilaka, Srinivas Chilakapudi & Bharath Laxmipati, this movie promises great entertainment for children for its wonderful VFX.
As per the performances are concerned, #YagyaBhasin as Chhota Bheem looked smart and handsome, #AashriyaMishra as Chutki looked pretty, #SwarnaPandey as Princess Indumati looked gracious, #AdvikJaiswal as Raju looked charming, #DivyamDawar as Bholu and #DaivikDawar as Dholu looked cute together, #KabirSajid as Kalia looked sweet, #AryanKhan as Jaggu (voice) appeared good onscreen, #SumitKeshri as Damyaan (voice) sounded vicious onscreen. #AnupamKher as Guru Shambhu & #MakarandDeshpande as Skandhi graced the movie with their presence. #MeghaChilaka as Bheem's mother, #SurbhiTiwari as Tuntun Mausi ( Chutki's mother ), #NavneetKaurDhillon as Tashika, #ShajiChoudhary as Churan Singh, #ChandrashekharDutta as Singhala, #SanjayBishnoi as Raja Indraverma ( Indumati's father ) lent abled support.
Cinematography by #Suryaa is good. Editing by #JunaidSiddiqui could have been crisper. Music by #RaghavSachar is fairly good.
Production company #GreenGoldStudios & Distribution by #UFOMoviez need to be applauded for this making this film. One-Time watch, but highly recommended for children this season. 👍🏻
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar (2024)
Historical Extravaganza with loopholes
Direction by the auteur #SanjayLeelaBhansali is superb with a fantastic narrative style. Well written by him, Divya Nidhi & Vibhu Puri, produced by #BhansaliProductions & streamed by #Netflix , this movie chronicles the lives of courtesans of the red-light district of Heera Mandi in Lahore, with a backdrop of the Indian independence movement against British rule in India in the 1940s.
Performances by the lead protagonists #ManishaKoirala, #SonakshiSinha, #AditiRaoHydari, #RichaChadha, #SanjeedaSheikh are mind-blowing, #SharminSegalMehta is ( ahem ) what all have already judged, but people need to notice in her in the last 10 mins of the series and #TahaShahBadussha is good, but nothing to shout about. Other supporting casts include #FaridaJalal, #AdhyayanSuman, #FardeenKhan, #ShekharSuman, #IndreshMalik, #JasonShah, #JayatiBhatia, #NiveditaBhargava, #AbhaRanta, #ShrutiSharma, #RajatKaul, #PratibhaRanta, #MarkBennington, #AnjuMahendru & #UjjwalChopra are tailor-made.
Cinematography by #SudeepChatterjee, #MaheshLimaye, #HuenstangMohapatra & #RagulDharuman is of high order and the music and the editing by the director himself is respectively melodious and fast paced and crispest to the T. The screenplay is intriguing. The background score by #BenedictTaylor & #NarenChandavarkar is fantastic. Kudos to the whole team helmed by the director and #PrernaSingh and casting director #ShrutiMahajan. Although there are some major jerks in the back chroma projection ( a river is shown instead of Lahore cityscape ), the book Peer-e-Kamil by Umera Ahmed is shown in the library sequence which is a publication of 2004 and Sonakshi's Urdu newspaper reading scene highlights about Corona outbreak and powercut happening in Candles era, etc. One-Time watch, but highly recommended for its aesthetics though. 👍🏻
Shaitaan (2024)
An Unusual horror flick on Manifestation with an unusual climax and twists
Direction by #VikasBahl is superb with a fantastic narrative style. Well written by #AamilKeeyanKhan, produced by #JioStudios, #DevgnFilms, #PanoramaStudios ( Vikas Bahl, #JyotiDeshpande, Ajay Devgn, #AbhishekPathak and #KumarMangatPathak ) & distributed by #PenMarudharEntertainment, this movie is the official remake of the Gujarati hit film #Vash ( 2023 ) written & directed by #KrishnadevYagnik.
Performances by the lead protagonists #AjayDevgn as Kabir Rishi is awesome, but #RMadhavan as Vanraj Kashyap is simply phenomenal as the despotic and vicious menace. Even brilliant would be an understatement. #JankiBodiwala as Jahnvi Rishi is extraordinary in her performance. #Jyothika as Jyoti Rishi and #AnngadRaaj as Dhruv Rishi has their wow moments too. Cinematography by #SudhakarReddyYakkanti is of high order and the editing by #SandeepFrancis is fast paced and crispest to the T. The screenplay is intriguing with ample edge-of-the-seat jumpscare sequences with an unusual twist at the end unlike that from the original film. This movie has got the best climax I must say and a satisfying ending. The music and background score by #AmitTrivedi is simply fabulous, specially the title track. Kudos to the whole team. 👍🏻
Crew (2024)
Smart Storytelling and Great Performances
Direction by #RajeshAKrishnan is stylish with a superb and fast-paced narrative style. Produced by #EktaKapoor, #RheaKapoor, #AnilKapoor & Digvijay Purohit, this movie is the stylish take on the debatable #KingfisherAirlines and #VijayMallya scam in the aviation industry and the outmath in the lives of its crew.
Performances by the lead protagonists #Tabu as Geeta Sethi (flight attendant), #KareenaKapoorKhan as Jasmine Kohli (flight attendant), #KritiSanon as Divya Rana (flight attendant) are tailor-made for them and they have aptly lived their characters, #DiljitDosanjh as Customs officer Jaiveer Singh (Special appearance) & #KapilSharma as Arun Sethi (Special appearance) has lent abled support.
#RajeshSharma as Pruthviraj Mittal (H. R. Head of Kohinoor Airlines) & #SaswataChatterjee as Vijay Walia (Chairman of Kohinoor Airlines) has given a superb performance as the comic villain. #KulbhushanKharbanda as Jasmine's grandfather, #IvanRodrigues as Divya's father, #TruptiKhamkar as S. I. Mala, #CharuShankar as Sudha Mittal & #RamakantDayma as Mr. Rajvanshi are superb with their intricate nuances. Cinematography by #AnujRakeshDhawan is of high standards and the editing by #MananSagar is crisp. The screenplay is fast-paced and with full of comic scenes. The music by Diljit Dosanjh, #Badshah, Raj Ranjodh, Vishal Mishra, Akshay-IP, Bharg Rohit is HIT & the background score by #JohnStewartEduri is excellent. Production companies #BalajiMotionPictures, #AnilKapoorFilmsandCommunicationNetwork
& Distribution by #PenMarudharEntertainment have made a fabulous effort to back up this project. Absolutely, a Must-Watch this season.
Do Aur Do Pyaar (2024)
Weak Screenplay and Glorifying Infidelity
Direction by #ShirshaGuhaThakurta is good and sensible with a very smart narrative style. Produced by Sameer Nair, Deepak Segal, #TanujGarg, #AtulKasbekar & Swati Iyer Chawla, this movie is the official remake of the hollywood film #TheLovers written & directed by #AzazelJacobs, which debates Marriage and arguably glories Infidelity as the better institution.
Performances by the lead protagonists #VidyaBalan & #PratikGandhi are superb with their intricate nuances, but the supporting leads
#IleanaDCruz & #SendhilRamamurthy failed miserably to portray their parts. Cinematography by #KartikVijay is average and the editing by #BardroyBarretto could have been 10 minutes crisper. The screenplay renders mundane intermittently with monotonous sequences, barring some light moments though. The overall film seems to pace like a short film or a telefilm. The music is absolutely not good, and the background score is fair. Production companies #ApplauseEntertainment & #EllipsisEntertainmentProduction and distributors #AAFilms have made a futile effort to back up this project. Absolutely, you may give it a miss.
Maidaan (2024)
Not an enjoyable Biopic and almost a documentary
Superb Cinematography, Poor Direction ( Narrative style could have been more intriguing ), depressing character-sketch of the lead, Weak Screenplay, Horrendous Editing ( the film could have been 20 mins crisper ) even Rudraneil's acting was mere caricature. There was no light moments unlike other worth-remembering sports films like Chak De India, Mary Kom, Dangaal, Lagaan, Azhar, Dhoni or Bhaag Milkha Bhag etc. Even the supporting cast has tried their best but in vain. There were many mundane moments, concentrating more on the football match documentary, making it a One-Time Watch.
#Syed Abdul Rahim #AmitRavindernathSharma
#AkashChawla #ArunavaJoySengupta
#RiteshShah #SiddhantMago
#TusharKantiRay #FyodorLyass #ARRahman #BoneyKapoor #AkashChawla #BayviewProjects #ZeeStudios #DevRaoJadhav #ShahnawazMosani #AjayDevgn #Priyamani #GajrajRao #ChaitanyaSharma #AmartyaRay.
Mirza: Part 1 - Joker (2024)
A Well-made acting film franchise
A superbly shot ganglord film written & well-directed by #SumeetGoradia & #SaahilGoradia, perfectly-knit story & screenplay by #ArnabBhaumik, a superb and successful Production by #AnkushHazra, #AbirGupta & #ArkadebUkil. The overall looks of the cast is amazing, along with the incredible performances of Dancing Superstar Ankush Hazra, #OindrilaSen, auteur #KaushikGanguly, #RishiKaushik, #PriyaMondal, #ShoaibKabeer, #ShantilalMukherjee, #SankarDebnath, #SumitGanguly ( cameo ), #KunalBhandari, #RatanSarkhel, #RajatGanguly, #BiswaroopBiswas and the adorable #RyanGuhaNeogi along with others.
Cinematography by the wizard #AnimeshGhorui is superb with sharp editing by #SanglapBhaumik, but it could have been 15 mins crisper. Music by #IshanMitra & #AneekDhar is superb and worth-humming.
With lots of Twists and Turns and an interesting cameo epilogue ( will not give any spoilers ), Production company #AnkushHazraMotionPictures & distributor #PVRInoxPictures will surely incur huge profit, because this film is technically very well-made, stylish and honestly shot. The efforts invested are visible. Kudos!👍🏻
A Must-Watch Commercial Film not to be missed 👍🏻🍫
My Rating --- 8/10.
Oti Uttam (2024)
Old Wine in a New Bottle
Illogical Premise. Poor Direction. Actors have tried their best to do justice but failed miserably. Very poor direction. But the effort of back-calculating the Screenplay, selecting 54 shots out of Uttam Kumar's old 87 films and then rotoscoping the digitally remasteres shots are not a matter of joke. The music is nice and the Cinematography is good. But picturising intimate scenes with the heroine and Uttam Kumar was like a culture shock. However, One-time Watch 👍🏻
#SoumikHaldar #UttamKumar #GourabChatterjee #AnindyaSengupta #RoshniBhattacharya #SubhasishMukherjee #LaboniSarkar #RupaDutta #PronoyDasgupta #SaptakSanaiDas #PrabuddhaBanerjee #CamelliaProductions #PVRInoxPictures #PVR #INOX.
Pariah Volume 1: Every Street Dog Has a Name (2024)
Tollywood's smart reply to Bollywood movie Animal
A rowdy on prowl for his missing puppy and in the process, exposing the dark secrets of the prevalent dog trade market. Undoubtedly a unique concept for Bengali Cinema ( obviously with manifold Indian movies especially #Lakadbaggha ) and a perfect answer to Bollywood's movie #Animal on the count of gross, gore and graphic violence shown.
As per the performances are concerned, #VikramChatterjee has given his career's best performance and so is the antagonist #SoumyaMukherjee. They both are the rediscovery of Tollywood. #AnganaRoy looked beautiful, although she has got nothing to do, apart from looking nice, barring one interrogation scene with the antagonist, where she has delivered fairly a good job. #SreelekhaMitra acted really well in her part and she has her moments. #AmbarishBhattacharya in his part is very good. His last scene in the movie will give u chills. After the movie #Shibpur, again came across such jumpscaring scenes. #TapatiMunsi is as usual too good. She is a true thespian. #DebashishRoy, #LoknathDey, #DebaprasadHalder, #BimalGiri & #SahirRaj are also convincing in their parts.
Director #TathagataMukherjee has superbly narrated the story with a fantastic style with a great screenplay by Antara Banerjee & himself. Producer #PrateekChakravorty and #AvinabaGhosh under their production house #PramodFilms & #DreamsOnSale have made an excellent project and truly deserve accolades. Music by #RanajoyBhattacharjee, Lyrics by #RitamSen and Tathagata Mukherjee is good. Cinematographey by #UttaranDe is superb and editing by #AmirMondal is crisp. Sound Design by #AdeepSinghManki, Sound Mixing by #TanmoySaha, Colorist #ProsenjitBanerjee, Graphics by #ForthDimension, Art Direction by #BabluSingha and Costume & Styling by #PoulamiGupta have done a fabulous job. They are the unsung heroes to make this film one of the must-watch Bengali films of 2024.
If u r a animal lover, go and watch the movie. And if u r not, u have to watch to know why I am recommending u to watch it. Dont Miss It. For the sake of Good Cinema.
Fighter (2024)
A nice Video Game
It is undoubtedly the first-of-its-kind aerial action franchise film, where some real life Indian Air Force cadets have worked in the film, having references to the infamous 2019 Pulwama attack, 2019 Balakot airstrike and 2019 India-Pakistan border skirmishes. The fantastic visual effects are handled by #DNEG. Direction by #SiddharthAnand, story co-written by #RamonChibb along with the director and screenplay by Ramon Chibb are great, dialogues by #HussainDalal, #AbbasDalal & #BiswapatiSarkar are fairly good too.
Producers Mamta Anand, Ajit Andhare, Anku Pande, Ramon Chibb & Kevin Vaz have made a brilliant film.
As per the performances are concerned, #HrithikRoshan as Squadron Leader Shamsher "Patty" Pathania aka Shammi and #DeepikaPadukone as Squadron Leader Minal "Minni" Rathore both have delivered a stellar performance, #AnilKapoor as Group Captain Rakesh "Rocky" Jaisingh has done his stunts brilliantly as young as never before. #KaranSinghGrover as Squadron Leader Sartaj "Taj" Gill and Akshay Oberoi as Squadron Leader Basheer "Bash" Khan has given their career's best performance till date. #RishabhSawhney as Azhar Akhtar looked menacing as ever and surely deserve to garner awards and accolades --- surely this year's best discovery till date. #SanjeedaSheikh as Saanchi Gill ( Taj's wife ), #AshutoshRana as Abhijeet Rathore ( Minni's father ), #GeetaAgrawal as Usha Rathore ( Minni's mother ), #TalatAziz as Mr Pathania ( Patty's father ), #SharibHashmi as Wing Commander Varthaman (character inspired from Abhinandan Varthaman), #VinayVarma as Air Commodore Debyajyoti "Debu" Biswas, #HarishKhatri as the Prime Minister of India & #ChandraShekharDutta as RAW agent Zarina Begum have supported superbly as the pillars of the script in their special appearances.
Cinematography by #SatchithPaulose is of international standards and editing by #AarifSheikh is crispest to the core.
Music by (Score) #SanchitBalhara and #AnkitBalhara and (Songs) #VishalShekhar is fantastic according to the screenplay and is already topping the charts nationwide.
Kudos to the production companies #Viacom18Studios & #MarflixPictures and distribution by #Viacom18 Studios.
A Must Watch this season.
Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole (2024)
Ode to Pulp Fiction but the screenplay is not Palpable
My Review of #ShriSwapankumarerBadamiHyenarKobole ::: Direction by #DebaloyBhattacharya is fairly good. His storytelling narrative is not intriguing, but his shot-taking style is very fresh. Dialogues are superbly penned. Many scenes and shots resemble his previous films, specially #DraculaSir.
Cinematography by #RamyadeepSaha is of first order. Marvellous would be an understatement. Editing by #SanglapBhowmick is very slow paced, just like the screenplay. So, the audience tends to get bored very soon. Music by #AmitChatterjee is fresh to the ear, but not hummable enough. But the song 'Mushroom' is well-composed. Production company #HoichoiStudios ( #Hoichoi ) & distribution by
#ShreeVenkateshFilms ( #SVF ) has made this venture saleable, but its Box Office glorious run is debatable.
As per as the performances are concerned, #AbirChatterjee as Dipak Chatterjee & #ParanBandopadhyay as Sri Swapankumar has tried their best to backup the poor screenplay with their screen presence by acting well.
#ShrutiDas as Tashi is not at all impressive and looked very dull and stiff in her dialogues delivery. #GoutamHalder as usual acted as a carbon copy in his signature style. #PratikDutta as Ratanlal is a new and fresh discovery and someone to watch out for. #LoknathDey is good. Last but definitely not the least, theatre & TV actress #SaoliBandopadhyay looked very confident and tried her best as much she can, in her few scenes. But her atrocious wig looked very poor on her. But overall, if you leave your brain, aptitude and logic at your home, and come to enjoy a #PulpFiction film based on a graphic novel chain of the similar genre, then you would surely gonna enjoy the film. One-Time watch or a Timepass 👍🏻
Merry Christmas (2024)
Superb Narrative and Fabulous Screenplay
My Review of #MerryChristmas ::: Direction by the auteur #SriramRaghavan is per excellence. His storytelling narrative and non-linear screenplay is superb as usual. The film is based on #LeMonteCharge by #FrédéricDard.
#RameshTaurani, #JayaTaurani, #SanjayRoutray & #KewalGarg have produced such a brilliant and underrated film.
As per the performances are concerned, #KatrinaKaif and #VijaySethupathi have excelled in their parts, while #SanjayKapoor, #RadhikaApte, #VinayPathak, #PratimaKazmi, #TinnuAnand, #AshwiniKalsekar, #LukeKenny & ( baby ) #PariMaheshwariSharma lent able support and made their presence amply felt.
Cinematography by #MadhuNeelakandan is of first order and Editing by #PoojaLadhaSurti is crisp at its edge. Music by #Pritam is good, but none of the songs are hummable enough, and could have been better, for thrillers like this. The Background Score by #DanielBGeorge is fabulous and one of the main pillars of the plot. Also Kudos to the Art department and the overall Production Design of the project.
A superb production by #TipsFilms & #MatchboxPictures & Distribution by #PenMarudharEntertainment & #UFOMoviez. Dont afford to miss it in theatres or else catch its streaming very soon on #Netflix. Happy Watching 👍
Kabuliwala (2023)
Multiple Time Watch and Asset Acting of Rahmat-Mini Duo
My Review of #Kabuliwala ::: Director #SumanGhosh has brilliantly made this #RabindranathTagore written short story.
#MithunChakraborty & #AnumeghaKahali has acted brilliantly. #AbirChatterjee, #SohiniSarkar, #KanchanMullick, #SumitSamandar & #GulshanaraKhatun has performed well. #SubhankarBhar has cinematographed well. #SujayDattaRay has edited crisply. #IndradeepDasgupta has musically knit the film well. #SVF & #JioStudios had made this joint venture successfully. During the first half of the Film, you will be relocated to any Kurdish environment with the beautiful camerawork of the cinematographer.
Pradhan (2023)
Poorest Film of 2023
Honest, Unbiased, Upfront & Fearless Review of #Pradhan : Poor Direction. Worst Cinematography. Non hummable music. Sloth screenplay. Poor Editing.
Both the hero and heroine were disappointing. John, Sneha, Rupsha, Arindol, Biswajit, Tulika were behaving as Trophies pr Furniture or Flower Vasses. Editing could have been crisper. Have to return home purchasing a Saridon. Such a boring and mundane film.
Overall 1/5, One Time Watch.
#Dev #AnirbanChakrabarti #MamataShankar #ParanBandyopadhyay #SohiniSengupta #AvijitSen #DevEntertainmentVentures #soumitrishakundoo #soumitrishakundu #DebasishMondal.
Dawshom Awbotaar (2023)
An Honest, Blunt, Upfront, Unbiased & Impartial One-Liner Review
Director #SrijitMukherji's latest product from his Cop Universe and from the house of #SVF, jointly delivered a much-hyped but a thoroughly disappointing melodramatic daily-soap kinda experience. The first half was no-doubt fast-paced and power-packed, but on the contrary, the second half lacked its pace and the screenplay went totally haywire. Music is equally awful, and so is the editing. The second poorest release after Bagha Jatin. The camera work is fairly moderate. But over-usage of slo-mo and Drone shots seems overrated. The plot is predictable and the screenplay is neither edge-of-the-seat, nor gripping. Both #ProsenjitChatterjee & #JisshuSengupta delivered good performances, #AnirbanBhattacharya is fair too, while #JayaAhsan tried her best, but all her efforts to cope up with the predictable plot rendered futile. However, its a one-time watch movie. Moral of the story, over-usage of cuss words and intimate scenes along with titillating the audience with previous franchises' hints couldn't save the drowning ship, when the premise is itself weak.
Raktabeej (2023)
Honest, Blunt, Upfront, Unbiased & Impartial One-Liner Review
#Raktabeej : Fabulous Cinematography, Crisp Editing, Fantabulous Music & Gripping Screenplay with a Superb Narrative Style, twists and turns till the end. #AbirChatterjee, #MimiChakraborty, #DebasishMondal and #UmaBanerjee stole the show eclipsing others, even #VictorBanerjee and #AnasuaMajumdar. #KanchanMallick, #ParometaMukherjee & #DevlinaKumar has their moments though. #MaulikGhosh needs to be praised with special mention. But #SatyamBhattacharya, #KanchanMallick, #SubhaRanjanMukherjee & #AmbarishBhattacharya has been a miscasted and wasted as a whole. But #TanusreeShankar has her presence amply felt in her brief cameo, just because of the character of whom she has played ... #AnkushHazra has his moments in the foot-tapping item number ( and may be many more which u had to check out urself ). Well, must say, it has got one of the best Climax sequence ever in the recent Bengali films been shot. Kudos to the director duo #NanditaRoy & #ShiboprosadMukherjee and co-writer #ZiniaSen for making a such a brilliant and well-made, social-awareness and relevant Film. Indeed it will attract repeat audiences too. A must-watch this puja. It is a perfect Puja Film and truly a Game-Changer.
Bagha Jatin (2023)
Honest, Blunt, Upfront, Unbiased & Impartial One-Liner Review
Poorest Cinematography of #GopiBhagat till date ( with lots of jerky steady frames, irrelevant camera movements and off-focus preference shots ), Sloth Editing, Dragging Screenplay with a Mundane Narrative Style. Unnecessary usage of Background Commentary by #MirAfsarAli and Animation just to forcibly make it look like a Docu-Fiction. #Dev tries to steal the show eclipsing others, but under no circumstances, it is justified to design the action sequences of pre-independence era in such a fashion, that it looks like someone Dev, Amitabh, SRK or any Tom Cruise is performing. Of course, Bagha Jatin was no less than a Superhero but the tiger sequence and the other fight sequences were shot like a XBox Video Game. Very poor execution ! Apart from #SudiptaChakraborty in her body language and dialogue delivery style, none of the actors have done justice to their characters. Everyone were playing like their original selves. Noone has got into the skin of their characters to be very honest, blunt and specific. But, somehow the theater actors bunch has tried to put some effort, but couldn't able to catapult the project as a whole, whatever justification or clarification they might put forward. Director #ArunRoy highly disappoints this time for falling into the trap of consumerism and superstar glamour for making such a dud by superstar producer and trying to make his project way more saleable, which is even way worse than his previous films. U may skip it this time, if u haven't seen it yet.
Jongole Mitin Mashi (2023)
Honest, Blunt, Upfront, Unbiased & Impartial One-Liner Review
#JongoleMitinMashi : Beautiful Cinematography, Crisp Editing, Great Music by #BickramGhosh, Fairly Good Screenplay with a Lovely Narrative Style. #KoelMallick stole the show eclipsing others. Applause to director #ArindamSil for making a good Children's Film which is way better than its previous franchise. It is a perfect puja film and shouldn't be missed in this festive time. All the other actors have done their parts well. Based on one of the lovely stories of Mitin Mashi written by Suchitra Bhattacharya, it is a perfect tribute to the genius. This is the perfect mixture of Jungle Adventure.
Byomkesh O Durgo Rahasya (2023)
One Time Watch
Review of #ByomkeshODurgoRahoshyo ::: Firstly Direction by #BirsaDasgupta is fairly average, Screenplay by Subhendu Dasmunshi is very sloth. Based on the bestseller Durgo Rahasya by #SharadinduBandyopadhyay and produced by #Dev, #ShyamSundarDey & Tanmoy Banerjee is not upto the mark.
As per performances are concerned, the trio
Dev, #RukminiMaitra & even #AmbarishBhattacharya is miscasted and eventually they gave their career's worst performances. #RajatavaDutta, #ShantilaalMukherjee, #DebeshChattopadhyay & #ShankarDebnath lent abled support. #SatyamBhattacharya was impressive. #SampurnaMandal in her cameo sparkles in her body language and dialogue delivery. But the performance of whom I can speak volumes is of none other than #AtmadeepGhosh. Whatta marvellous actor he is !!!
Cinematography by #SubhankarBhar is of high order. Specially the way he took the frames in darkness meticulously. But since 80% of the film is shot in darkness, so the audience may tend to feel mundane. Editing by Sumit Chowdhury could have been crisper. The pace of the whole film is very slow, barring the last 15 mins. Costumes by #JayantiSen is of high order, specially the way she has handled the vintage look of the 40's through the styling of the cast. But, I must say, Pregnant Satyaboti shouldnt have worn such heavy or rich and ironed costumes.
Well this Byomkesh haven't smoked. Thats a nice touch of cinematic liberty. But instead of Bouthan, Ajit continuously calling Satyaboti as Satyo in 40's era, was too much to digest.
But a very predictable plot, and even if you haven't read the novel, still you can guess the culprit. Because, audience now-a-days are not dumb enough to be lost in such a narrative pattern.
Music by #DiptarkaBose was not at all hummable. The theme song is good but it didnt find any place on anyone's mind.
Production companies #ShadowFilms &
#DevEntertainmentVentures and Distribution by
#PVRInoxPictures have made a #OneTimeWatch film. U may give it a pass too.
Tirandaj Shabor (2022)
SPINE CHILLING
Watched #TirandajShabor, the fourth installment of the detective Shabor series, adapted from the novel Tirandaj by the eminent novelist #ShirshenduMukhopadhyay, directed by #ArindamSil & co-written by #PadmanabhaDasgupta, produced by #RupaDutta under the banner of #CamelliaProductions and distributed by #SVF.
Direction is definitely smarter than the previous franchises. Shabor is much humane here. But using Rashomon effect in these movies seem cliché now-a-days. Narrative is good too, structure-wise.
Cinematography by #AyanSil is of high order. I must mention in one indoor sequence of Papia's drawing room where ACP Shabor & Nando were interrogating Papia and her lover, where they were tensed at loggerheads. The shot showed 20% of the two subjects' heads only and 80% headspace of Wallprinted Waves. The shot was so 'beautifully disturbing and distorted' yet so meticulous, that resembles any shot from any typical Korean or Iraninan flicks. Kudos to the DOP to have used such a brilliant frame in Tollywood, which broke the stereotypes of usual shot-taking techniques.
Editing by #SanglapBhowmik is crisp too. The film is fast-paced with a run time of less than 2 hour ( 1 hr 53 mins only ).
Music by the maestro #BickramGhosh is the most gripping one, which made the whole film and each scene too intriguing and edge-of-the-seat, giving ample chills and cold blood running down ur spine.
Apu-da, aka #SaswataChatterjee as ACP Shabor Dasgupta as usual excels with his superb dialogue deliveries and body-language ably supported by the comic timings and nuances of #SubhrajitDutta as Nando,
Vicky-da aka #NigelAkkara as Sumit Ghoshal/Bulu deserves special mention with his rugged yet charming persona to deliver such a layered character so poignantly. #ArindamSil as Sitanath Samaddar looked vicious through his superb acting. Veteran #ChandanSen as Pareshnath showed his mettle in his scenes. But, must say, there was no clarification of the fact that why his character is shown effeminate irrelevantly. Its not justified through the script. As far as I know, the main novel didnt have any effeminate character. Even if the actor has chosen to layer this character like this, proactively, I must say that unnecessarily its derogatory to titillate audience to provoke laughter by using effeminacy as a card. That portion is quite disappointing.
#PoulomiDas as Sonali Basu in her cameo looked ravishing.
#SaranyaKar as Jamuna is good, but need to work on her accent a bit before playing such a underprivileged character of a slum.
#ParometaMukherjee in her small role showed her prowess by the way she crafted her body language and lines in front of the stalwart, with such ease.
Majo-di aka #DebjaniChatterjee as Papia Samaddar deserves special mention. Each frame where she was in, she just killed it with her persona. Such a strong actress she is !
But unfortunately, to be honest, #DevlinaKumar as Pritha/Rumki didnt impress me me at all. I know she is not a contemporary actress, but a dancer and teacher, but in this character, much layers and voice modulation and intonation is expected, which seems missing in her part, I'm afraid to be such blunt. However she looked gorgeous.
Definitely its recommended to watch this film once for the Cinematography and Background Score as its two pillars. 👍🏻
Kakababur Protyaborton (2022)
One-Time Fun Watch
Finally the 3 years of prolonged wait came to an end. Watched the First Day First Show of #KakababurProtyaborton directed by #SrijitMukherji, followed by a great refreshment welcome bash.
Direction ( narrative style ) is far better than the previous two franchises. But Screenplay by him rendered sloth in some parts.
Adapted from the story #JongolerModhyeEkHotel by #SunilGangopadhyay, the film do has some edge-of-the-seat moments, with showcasing animals in their respective scenes were real, true & honest. But, the wilderbeast stampede sequence could not match upto the audience experience for poor CGI and VFX combined. So, the whole effort went zero. It reminded of the volcano sequence poor effects from Chander Pahar. The scene looked like that from a substandard video game.
Production by #ShrikantMohta & #MahendraSoni is applaudable to have gifted us with this amazing production.
Starring none other than the impeccable #ProsenjitChatterjee as the sleuth Raja Roy Chowdhury alias Kakababu and the dapper #AryannBhowmik as his nephew Santu always steals the show, but this time #AnirbanChakrabarti also did a good job playing #AmolDev with his moments. Riju-da ( the director ) himself gave us a visual treat with his extended cameo for unravelling the mystery of the missing 2 German tourists from the remote hotel in Masaimara. Watch the film to know more.
Cinematography by #SoumikHaldar deserves special mention for capturing the beauty of Kenya Nairobi's #MasaimaraForest region in such a large scale canvas. Has been his fan since #ChanderPahar.
Music by #IndraadipDasgupta is average, but the score is good.
Again a grt attempt by #SVF aka Shree Venkatesh Films for making and distributing such a massive production schedule of 12-13 days in Kenya.
Editing could have been at least 15 minutes crisper to make it a gripping and intriguing narrative.
Overall this Saraswati Puja is gonna be merrier with this film for all ages. Do visit ur nearest theatres to celebrate the comeback of Cinema to the theatres and the soon-to-be-demolishing pandemic.