A mad poet is prime suspect in a series of murders in rain-drenched, noirish Kolkata.
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Srijit Mukherjee’s sophomore feature, a serial killer story, marries genre thrills with the Hungryalist movement. Raj Chakraborty came close to bridging the urban-rural audience gap in Bengali cinema with Challenge, a familiar story about star-crossed lovers, satiating our masala cravings with a newfound sleekness, an enjoyable Jeet Gannguli album and a terrific comic turn by Rajatava Datta. Starring yesteryear Bengali actress Lolita Chatterjee, the memories of his grandmother, and old haunted locations. He gives the father a strange kind of ailment: he has stopped registering new memories, but he remembers the things that matter.Īditya Vikram Sengupta’s second feature, after Asha Jaoar Majhe, captures the dream-like quality in movies and the movie-like quality in dreams. But trust Atanu Ghosh to locate the unusual in the ordinary. Comfort viewing for the homesick Bengali.Ī son ( Prosenjit Chatterjee) visiting his ailing father ( Soumitra Chatterjee) in Kolkata may not sound like a thrilling premise. Gupta’s film lies at the intersection of a traditionally food-crazy culture and the new world of Masterchef, #foodstagram and focaccia bread. Paris-based celebrity chef Dev D (Ritwick Chakraborty) struggles to achieve perfection with a simple fish curry recipe after he returns home to his ailing mother (Mamata Shankar). Shot in Purulia - where he keeps going back to film new subjects, new stories - arthouse giant Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s film from 2016 is, above everything else, about the splendour of the landscape: the rolling moors, the sprawling trees.
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As much an outdoor film as it is indoor, Sumon Mukhopadhyay’s underrated work recalls Ray’s hill station movie Kanchenjunga in its understated, languid, fog-shrouded atmosphere. Sexual tension, insecurity and friendship underline the weird dynamics between Moloy ( Bratya Basu), his wife Tuki ( Swastika Mukherjee) and his childhood friend, Indrajit (Ritwick Chakraborty): a guest for a few days at their home in Darjeeling. Netflixīoasting of a rap-heavy soundtrack and grimy black and white cinematography, Q’s lo-fi indie sensation is meant to provoke and shock and take you to places you don’t want to go. With their opposite acting styles and credentials, Prosenjit Chatterjee, the movie star who left theatre for greener pastures, and Ritwick Chakraborty, the one who stayed back, lock horns to generate solid drama in Kaushik Ganguly’s tale of two brothers (which unfolds over the course of the week following their father’s death in their ancestral home).
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