Tag: film review

{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,…

Dunkirk (Dir.: Christopher Nolan; Cast: Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Cilian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh et al.) (Alert: Potential spoilers ahead) Dunkirk is a beautiful film, and an exceptional one. It?s not entertainment in the usual sense. It?s an immersive experience. Like any war film worth its salt, Dunkirk is, at its core, an anti-war film that…

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)…

Tamasha (Dir.: Imtiaz Ali; Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Piyush Mishra et al.) Ritwik Ghatak peeks through in a frame when Ranbir Kapoor’s Ved and Deepika Padukone’s Tara enter to watch a film in Tamasha. Ritwik Ghatak was a man who did not compromise with his art for the sake of making it easier for…

Review: Asha Jaoar Majhe (Labour of Love); Director: Aditya Vikram Sengupta; Cast: Ritwick Chakraborty, Basabdatta Chatterjee Wow! And wow! Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Asha Jaoar Majhe (English title: Labour of Love) is a cinema that grows on you – slowly, steadily and with love. It creeps up to you and snuggles close to your heart. And…

Jurassic World (Dir.: Colin Trevorrow; Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan, BD Wong et al.) The first time you hear that soundtrack play and the expansive visuals take shape before your eyes on the big screen, you feel having broken even. Having recovered your ticket prices, you tighten your seat belts for some…

Ebar Shabor (Dir.: Arindam Sil; Cast: Saswata Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee, Dipankar De, Abir Chatterjee, Ritwick Chakraborty et al.) Ebar Shabor is a sleek film. It is a murder mystery with its fair share of chases, skeletons in the cupboard and shady characters with more facets to them than initially visible. Saswata Chatterjee and Ritwick Chakraborty,…

Ugly (Dir.: Anurag Kashyap; Cast: Rahul Bhat, Ronit Roy, Vineet Singh et al.) Anurag Kashyap has done it again. With Ugly, Anurag Kashyap, without doubt one of the best active Indian directors, has woven another masterful work around the contemporary society. It is being marketed as “a dark psychological thriller on the surface and an…

Interstellar (Dir.: Christopher Nolan; Cast: Mathew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine et al.) Warning: This review may contain spoilers!   Interstellar is the latest offering from the modern master Christopher Nolan. After finishing with the Batman saga in his last offering, The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan now ventures beyond the terra firma. And in Interstellar,…

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…