Anjan Dutta's 'Bong Connection' is a smashit movie. The return of Sayan Munshi is really a great by-product of this film. Although some of my friends have risen their eyebrows on the version of 'Pagla Hawa' used here, I feel may be thats the need of the movie theme; it was not necessary but quite fits into the perspective.
Although I feel tremendously unattached to this word 'Bong', but people from other states refer like that and gradually you cannot do much than accept. Dont forget we also have shortties to every states and we call them by that. But anyways these are fun when they are used in right spirit. After all we are a large country with different culture and traditions, if we have freedom to respect each other, we should also have some freedom to make fun of each other, but ofcourse in the right spirit.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Ballygunge Court
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.
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.
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