FILM REVIEWS

JESHTHO PUTRO – a film review A brilliant weaver of tales on relationships, Kaushik Ganguly, as director and writer, has given us yet another poem on celluloid with Jeshto Putro or the ‘first born son’. It is no less poignant a tale than the epic of ‘ Ramayana’ we so love to read. The film is a tribute to Rituporno Ghosh, a film-maker extraordinaire, as the story is inspired by one left unfinished by the maestro. A haunting and distressing tale of conflicts between siblings, the movie stupefies us to silence. The plot is unencumbered with intricate sub-plots woven into it and stays singular in execution. References to the past in many places remain sketchy and yet eloquent all through. The film explores the emotional bonding between two brothers who meet after decades in their ancestral home to perform the last rites of their deceased father. But the two brothers are not similar. The elder brother, Indrajit (Proshenjit Chatterjee), who is in the public eye as a ...

Vinci Da – a film review Vinci Da is a black ‘n white thriller in colour by Srijit Mukherjee under the banner of SVF Entertainment Pvt Ltd . Srijit has been playing with the genre of suspense and thrill for some time and is trying to perfect the art of making it his characteristic brand   to intrigue and electrify his viewers.   In my opinion, in his attempt to do so, earlier with Baishe Srabon and Chotushkon , he had often slipped somewhere in delivering the right pace and thrust that diluted the volume of intensity for the two previous thrillers. Vinci Da is a slight improvement on that. Shot on a shoe string budget, with artistes and not ‘stars’, Vinci Da has succeeded in capturing the attention of the audience with its open deliberation and candid confessions of a serial killer, perhaps a technique never tried before in Tollywood. The plot is a simple, awkward theme of revenge born out of a mind that is psychologically deranged. Caught in the web of thi...

KALANK – a film review If you are a movie addict and love the extravaganza of a genre that Prithviraj Kapoor, V. Shantharam and Sanjay Leela Bhansali have popularized in Bollywood, you may, perhaps, like to take a peek at ‘Kalank”. Kalank is an intense family drama portraying a love story spread across communal conflicts set in the backdrop of the 1940s. Directed by Abhishek Varman, it is co-produced by Dharma Productions, Fox Star Studios, as well as, Nadiadwala and Grandsons. To its credit, the film has an ensemble cast with Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt, Sonakshi Sinha and Aditya Roy Kapur. Set in Lahore during the spell of British rule in the sub-continent, the movie opens with the documentation of the Partition by a journalist interviewing Alia Bhatt who reveals a tragic story of deception and rejection, of trust gained and lost, of communal conflicts that slay love to make room for a soulless compromise just to stay alive. The theme is...