Dosar (The Companion) (Dir.: Rituparno Ghosh; Cast: Konkona Sensharma, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Chandrayee Ghosh, Pallavi Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee et al.) Koushik (Prosenjit Chatterjee), on the way back from a short (supposedly official) trip with Mita, his married colleague with whom he is having an extra-marital affair, meets an accident. While the accident claims Mita’s life, it…
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Review: Chander Pahar
Chander Pahar (Mountains Of The Moon, Dir.: Kamaleshwar Mukherjee; Cast: Dev, Gerard Rudolf et al.) Kamaleshwar Mukherjee follows up his masterclass, Meghe Dhaka Tara, with the action-adventure piece, Chander Pahar. While both films are in a way about exploring, breaking new grounds and striving to touch new heights, Meghe Dhaka Tara was about intensity and…
Review: English Vinglish
English Vinglish (Dir.: Gauri Shinde; Cast: Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou et al.) English Vinglish is a little gem ! Gauri Shinde’s story of a simple Indian housewife-entrepreneur (yes, you read that right!) and her little act of courage to earn respect from her own family is feel-good, funny and tear-inducing- all at the same…
Review: Tasher Desh (The Land of Cards)
Tasher Desh (The Land of Cards, Dir.: Qaushiq Mukherjee; Cast: Tilottama Shome, Rituparna Sen, Anubrata Basu, Imaad Shah et al.) Tasher Desh is Qaushiq Mukherjee’s vivid, violent take on Rabindranath Tagore’s eponymous play. Qaushiq (or Q) bases his film on Rabindranath’s timeless work and uses the play like a tool to create something very novel,…
Review: Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013)
Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013) (Dir.: Kamaleswar Mukherjee; Cast: Saswata Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Abir Chatterjee et al.) Meghe Dhaka Tara is a fitting tribute to the great Ritwik Ghatak from Kamaleswar Mukherjee. In style, in substance, in form and even in its stark duo-tone, this new Meghe Dhaka Tara is a throwback to the great director’s…
Review: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Dir.: Zoya Akhtar; Cast: Abhay Deol, Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar et al.) Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara? is a heartwarming movie from Zoya Akhtar around a road trip of self-discovery of three friends. After Kabir (Abhay Deol) proposes to his fiancee Natasha (Kalki Koechlin), he goes off to Spain for a long-planned…
Review: Subarnarekha
Subarnarekha (Dir.: Ritwik Ghatak) Ritwik Ghatak’s Subarnarekha is a tale of a refugee family in the aftermath of the partition of Bengal. Subarnarekha tracks the lives of a man, his child sister and a young boy whom the man provided shelter after the boy loses his mother in a melee. The film begins in a…
Review: Swades
Swades (Dir.: Ashutosh Gowariker; Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi et al.; Music: A.R. Rahman) Swades marked Ashutosh Gowariker?s return as a director after a hugely successful Lagaan. Swades is about the return of an Indian scientist working at NASA to his childhood village in India and about the incidents that follow next. Shah Rukh…
Review: Barfi
Barfi (Dir.: Anurag Basu; Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana D’Cruz et al.) Barfi is a romantic drama from Anurag Basu starring Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana D?Cruz et al. Barfi‘s story centres around the life of a differently-abled young man and his escapades. In due course, he falls in love with a young woman…
Review: Royal Bengal Rahasya
Royal Bengal Rahasya (Dir.: Sandip Ray; Cast: Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Bibhu Bhattacharya, Saheb Bhattacharya et al.) The biggest praise one can shower on Royal Bengal Rahasya is that it reminds the viewer of the first two Feluda movies made by the master Satyajit Ray himself. In its tone and mood,?Royal Bengal Rahasya strikes the right chord…