Tag: cinema

{Spoiler Alert/ The Batman (2022) চলচ্চিত্র-টি না দেখা থাকিলে পড়িবেন না} দু’বছর গথাম-এর অলি-গলিতে দুষ্কৃতী-দিগের ত্রাস হইয়া উঠিবার পর যখন ব্যাটম্যান-রুপী ব্রুস দেখিলেন, অতি প্রিয় নগর “ম্যান-মেড” বন্যায় জলমগ্ন, তাঁহার বোধোদয় ঘটিল। ব্রুস উপলব্ধি করিলেন, জনপদ তথা জনগণের সেবা করিবার উপযুক্ত পথ হিংসার নয়, ভালোবাসার। যিনি একদা গুন্ডা পিটাইয়া, “প্রতিহিংসা”-কেই নিজের পরিচয় বলিয়া গ্রহণ করিয়াছিলেন,…

What’s with the rabbit? What was Andhadhun all about? (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD) Andhadhun begins with a rabbit. An one-eyed rabbit escaping a hunter. The director begins with setting the theme for the next two-and-a-half hours. This is going to be the story of a rabbit caught in the headlights. Hunted. At the cross-hairs. In the…

Village Rockstars is a unique film. It’s unique in the sense that at no point does the action or the acting seem staged. It renders an almost fly-on-the-wall (or should I say fly-in-the-grass!) perspective. As we watch a mother and her two children, or a girl and her friends, or a group of villagers dealing…

Review: Asomapto (Incomplete) (2016) Director: Suman Mukhopadhyay; Cast: Ritwick Chakraborty, Bratya Basu, Swastika Mukherjee, Paoli Dam et al. Suman Mukhopadhyay’s Asomapto (2016) centres around 36-year old Indrajit’s (Ritwick Chakraborty) visit to the hills (probably somewhere in Darjeeling) in a bid to rediscover his childhood. He plans to stay at his old friend Moloy’s (Bratya Basu)…

Well then, another round of vilification. Another round of – as the bear put it – “propaganda“. And then being bumped off in the end to a round of raucous cheers and claps. And what for? For making the right prediction about a species that’s always wreaked havoc? A species with all kinds of wrong…

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (Dir.: Dibakar Banerjee; Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Anand Tiwari, Divya Menon et al.) Dibakar Banerjee has begun his Byomkesh Bakshy series in a flash of blood and rock. I say “begun” and “series” because this is clearly the first of multiple servings he has in mind. In that context, “Detective Byomkesh Bakshy”…

The commercial release of a Bengali movie in Kolkata coincided with the Durga Puja of 2014.? I still remember the first movie made by the same director a few years back. Impressed with the slick trailer and unconventional songs, I wanted to watch it. Back in my home town from college for a between-terms break…

The Two Types of Cinema: For the Commune and for the Individual It is no doubt a tempting exercise to classify a group into two categories. Two being the smallest number greater than one, such an exercise is not really taxing on the mind. Just choose a criteria and you are done! And this is…

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…

This section contains film reviews and musings around films in general. Exploiting the liberty of getting to choose the films I review, I have largely gone with the ones which moved or delighted or entertained me. As each film is unique and has its own story to tell, which may vary widely in scope and…