I apologise to the hypothetical reader, who actually cares to visit this blog, for writing another consecutive movie review. I cant help it. I watched this bangla movie 'Ballygunge Court' a few days back. Its not a new release, but I only managed to watch it recently. The movie is directed by Pinaki Chowdhury and based on Bani Bose’s story Deepshikha. The casting includes Soumitra Chatterjee, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Mamata and Tanusree Shankar in major roles.
Going by the trend, I will mention about the positives first. Its a film about the parents whose kids are leaving Calcutta (I still prefer to call her by this name) for better career prospects abroad. Nevertheless, they are leaving behind their parents in Calcutta, to suffer their rest of the life in lonelyness. The film is based on this appartment named 'Ballygunge Court' and builds up around the two couples played by Soumitra-Mamata and Sabyasachi-Tanusree.
The movie was great to watch, I never felt that it was stretching too much in length. The end was the most beautiful sequence, one really needs to watch it. It also deals with a social problem of the country losing its young brains to foreign nations. I think this was a major problem last decade and before that. The present trend says no one is too much excited to leave India permanently since the job offerings are becoming very lucrative at home also . Now, I think the problem is of equal opportunity. So in this respect the film actually should have been made a decade back. But anyways lets put aside the social criticism . The casting might have been made slightly better, or may be its just me; I am so used to seeing Mamata Shankar paired up with Dipankar Dey, that this sudden pairing with Soumitra was not taken very well by me, sorry for being conservative. The leads in the film where really great even the supporting casts like Biplab Chatterjee deserve special mention. I am very sad to see Manoj Mitra making such a inconsequential appearance in the movie.
Overall 'Ballygunge Court' is a good movie, worth watching and indeed supports the fact that commercial bangla movies are recovering better.
3 comments:
very well-written review,keep it up :)
Abhirup, just happen to bump on to your post, I just happened to watch this movie a day back. it's an ok movie, but very one-sided. People move out of their parent's place not only for career, also in quest of their own space. Did any of the couple portrayed in the movie have an elderly parent/relative staying with them? The nuclear faily was a concept adopted by the past generation & we are taking it just one step forward, & that is precisely how socio-economic change happens.. good or bad, I won't get into that.
This is my life story. I am now 62years old. my life is going towards the same of the story. I don't know the end of my life. definitely the movie is very good and realistic. every actors are fitted in this movie beautifully and the acting is unique and unbeatable. S. C. RAKSHIT
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