Starring: Indraneil Sengupta, Swastika Mukherjee, Tapas Pal
Directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Rating: **
The problem is not in the story but in its telling
Starring: Indraneil Sengupta, Swastika Mukherjee, Tapas Pal
Directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Rating: **
Bimal (Indraneil) and Meera (Swastika) are in a relationship, expecting their first child and planning marriage. While Meera works in a call centre in Calcutta, Bimal has a job at an old age home in Purulia. A chance visit to his old school in Jhumurpur makes him want to contribute something for the dilapidated building and he decides to make a window frame for what used to be his favourite spot in the class to day-dream. However, the school management is unwilling to accept it. They would rather have some donation. The film is all about Bimal’s unsuccessful journey to find a wall for the window and leaves us asking whether there are no takers in this world for memory and nostalgia? The amateurish acting is a big let-down. Indraneil looks self-conscious and vacuous in the name of thoughtful and Swastika is affected. There are a series of oddball characters—thief, truck driver, trapeze artiste—but they come across loud and hammy rather than quirky. The several plot strands and locations—call centre, old age home, circus, hospital—get long-winded and the narrative ponderous.