I review movies because I have a voice and I am extremely vocal
about my opinions. I believe that we being the consumers have every right to
accept or discard a product, but when it comes to art the market is not that
straight forward, because tangible emotions go in, to produce that. And the
resultant product is more like a living being, breathing the creator's breathe.
So reviewing a movie or a book, it not like reviewing a lipstick or fairness
cream, it is of utmost importance to be sensible.
Last Saturday we went for a movie after a long time and that too
a Bengali Movie. Well, I will be frank, when it comes to Bengali Cinema tad bit
bias happen to peep into my heart. But yet I will try to be brutally honest,
given to the responsibility I owe to my readers.
Literary maestro Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's celebrated creation,
detective Byomkesh Bakshi, has been the inspiration of many a story-tellers to
transform those intriguing tales on celluloid or motion pictures as they say.
Now who can forget Rajit Kapur as Byomkesh or recently Sushant Singh Rajput for
that matter. However back in Bengal, as we link Feluda to Soumitra Chattopadyay
or Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Byomkesh has become synonymous to Abir Chatterjee.
Abir has very elegantly, portrayed the poise, intelligence and masculine grace
of Byomkesh Bakshi, in all the movies he had played him. And Har Har Byomkesh directed by Arindam
Sil is no exception either.
Staged by the Holy Ganga in Varanasi, Har Har Byomkesh is an engaging Murder Mystery. Byomkesh, his
friend and partner in crime Ajit and his newly wedded wife Satyabati come to Varanasi
for a vacation and mostly certainly end up solving a Murder mystery surrounding
the wealthiest family of the place. Love, betrayal, infidelity, lust and wealth
a dangerous conglomeration of behaviours and emotions make the journey through
the tale, like the winding path of a menacing mountain which end with a beautiful
scenic treat. As in, at the end, Byomkesh spills the beans dramatically, like
curtain call.
The cast Abir Chatterjee, Ritwick Chakraborty, Nusrat Jahan,
Sohini Sarkar and others led by the captain of the ship Arindam Sil have come
together and put together an fascinating tale of mystery, which gave me and my
husband Avishek a beautiful Saturday, so thanks and congratulations.
Aritra Chakrabarty Sengupta
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