Projapoti- Bengali Film (2022)

Projapoti is a Bengali film released in 2022. It is directed by Avijit Sen. This film has Dev, Mithun Chakraborty and Mamata Shankar in main roles. 

The story of the film revolves around the father- son relationship of Mithun Chakraborty and Dev, (who also has a sister, that role is played by Koninika Banerjee). Ambarish Bhattacharya has played the role of the husband of Koninika. Dev and Koninika had lost their mother during their childhood. After that, their father (Mithun Chakraborty) has taken care of them. He has acted as both mother and father to his children. After Koninika's marriage, the relation between Dev and Mithun has become more close. Dev runs an event management company. Mithun often tells Dev to marry but Dev is very much concerned about his father's well being. He is worried whether his future wife would be able to take proper care of his father or not. During this time Mithun meets his college friend Kusum, this role is played by Mamata Shankar. Their old friendship finds a new maturity now. Kusum's daughter suggests the marriage of Mithun and Kusum. This proposal creates many serious as well as funny situations in the film. 

The film portarys the emotions of aged persons in a very nice way. The conflict between their duties and their emotions, their observation about the society, their mature way to handle the situations, their experience of going through different phases of life; everything has been shown in details in the film. 

The film ends in a positive note encouraging the audience to think afresh. Society can move according to the need of its members, old traditions get reformed and pave the way for new traditions if necessity arises.

It is a beautiful film which must be watched by the audience to know about the feelings of our elders who are an integral part of our lives as well as of the society as a whole.

All the best to the whole team of the film Projapoti for dealing with such a nice and thoughtful social issue.

With lots of best wishes 

Jai Shri Krishna. 

Rosogolla (2018)- Bengali film

This is a very nice film directed by Pavel. It tells us the story of how Rosogolla (the famous sweet item) was invented by young Nabin Chandra Sen. 

This film tries to capture the life and struggles of Nabin Chandra Sen. We connect with the character from the very beginning of the film. He always had the spirit of a creative person inside him. So in spite of facing various challenging situations in life, he kept on polishing his craft. 

The story includes Nabin's relationship with his wife, played by Avantika Biswas. This husband wife relation i portrayed as very spontaneous and pure. Their emotions, their fights and their support for each other, every scene between them captures our heart. The moment of success when the first rosogolla was made, seemed like a success for the audience also. Here lies the skill of the director who is able to associate the minds of the audience with that of the main protagonist. 

The role of played by Kharaj Mukherjee needs a special mention because of the effortlessness with which he played the role of a steady support system of Nabin. Rajatabha Dutta, Shantilal Mukherjee, Bidipta Chakraborty, all played their parts beautifully and contributed to the film through their characters.

The song 'Kajal bhamara' is beautiful and stays with us even after watching the film. 

Overall this is a feel good film which makes our heart melt like sweet Rosogolla and moves us to the ecstacy of creating something new.

With lots of wishes

Jai Shri Krishna.

Shri Swapankumar er Badami Hayenar Kobole- Bengali film (2024)

This 2024 film is directed by Debaloy Bhattacharya and produced by Hoichoi Studios. This film tries a different take on the stories by famous pulp fiction writer of 70's, Shri Swapankumar. In this film we see the presence of the writer Shri Swapankumar (played by Paran Bandopadhyay) as well as the character Deepak kumar (played by Abir Chatterjee) created by Swapankumar.

The story is based on Kolkata where the detective is trying to protect the city from the attack of an evil person who is known as Badami Hayena (played by Goutam Halder). With many twists and turns the detective becomes successful in preventing the attack by Badami Hayena.

This film is slightly different from normal films which generally have a linear storyline. Here the storyline changes many times according to the plan of the main character Deepak Kumar and of course according to the idea of the writer Swapankumar. Sometimes such sudden change brings a smile in the lips of the audience, and sometimes these changes also generate suspense. The action sequences as well as the events are shown in absurd ways to bring the element of comedy through the element of hyper realism (adding too much real life details so as to almost mimic the real life). Because of this, the audience needs to prepare themselves accordingly before watching the film. The mystery of the film and the solution are conveyed to us by the approach of heightened reality. It surprises the audience in a different way.

It is a new kind of film. If audience keeps supporting such projects then we may get to see many of such creative kind of films in future.

With best wishes

Hari Aum. 

Gotro: Movie Review

'Gotro' is a Bengali film directed and  produced by Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy. Main roles are played by- Nigel Akkara, Ambarish Bhattacharya, Saheb Chatterjee, Manali Dey and Anashua Majumdar.

Like all the other films made by Shiboproshad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy, Gotro also deals with a social problem, which is, the loneliness of the aged persons in todays world.

Muktidevi is a widow whose son lives in USA. He tries to appoint a caretaker for the house but Muktidevi rejects all of them showing some reason or another.

Lastly a person who is just freed from prison is appointed as a caretaker. Here the story starts. Gradually we see how the relationships between the main characters mature throughout the whole story.
There are other characters in the story like the maid of the house- Jhuma, and the priest, who bring the comic element as well as humane elements in the film.

The newly appointed caretaker Tarak or Tarek Ali, starts to become a member of the house by his sincerity and hard work. During one emergency, we can see that Muktidevi also moves beyond her rigid outlook and stars accepting as well as appreciating him.

In the later part of the film there is a nice sequence of a visit to a village in Odissa. Those scenes brought a different freshness and vitality in the story. We can very easily realise the importance of short trips or some changes in the daily lifestyle of aged persons. They become confined to their house with age. Gradually their activities also get dwindled. But such a nice change can bring about a new zeal in their life. Muktidevi truly enjoyed the trip with Jhuma and Tarak. So did the audience.

In the end, after some critical situations, we witness a puja where Muktidevi introduces Tarek as her second son. This scene is truly the culmination of all the events of the film. We all the feel the emotions of the both the mother and the son.

Here we can remember the story of Jabala and Satyakaam where the mother Jabala, gave her name to her son Satyakam.

And also we remember the film. Satyakaam by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, which also have this concept of recognising someone as a family member at the end of the film.


The film has a scene of Janmashtami, where I enjoyed the Krishna idol, the puja and the song by Aditi Munshi. In this situation there is also a messege of transcending the rigid concept of religion and embracing true humanity, which is very relevant in today's world.

'Gotro' is definitely a must watch film. Such uplifting story is needed more and more in our society.

Bigolito Koruna Janhobi Jomuna- Bengali Film

This is Bengali film which is based on a journey towards Kedarnaath and Badrinath. It has a group of pilgrims who are going to visit the shrines to fulfil their wishes. The main Protagonist, (played by Shubhendu Chatterjee) is going there only to observe the journey, the different aims and the tries to understand the purpose of this journey.

The film is very very rich in music. Pankaj Kumar Mullick has done such a marvellous job here that you'll only have to listen to it one. After that the tunes/ shlokas will keep on repeating themselves in your mind. The 'Charaaibeti' is one of the most used shloka here. There are other chants also. The theme music throughout the whole film is sooo Blissful and Divine!

The narrator meets the family where the elder sister is going for the welfare of her husband and the younger sister is going to correct her mistake- once she showed her disrespect towards God and lost the power of her legs. The hero follows her and they start sharing their views, accepteach other as companions and start the journey for the final phase.

There they face a snow storm and gets buried under the snow. The last sc of the film just freezes the shot. I liked that effect. It tells us that the end is actually endless...

Faith is one of the chief theme of this story. The hero wants to have Faith in this rituals/ journey towards the shrine, but he does not have enough. The heroine never had faith in God, but after losing her strength, she realises her mistake and decides to undertake the pilgrimage. In the course of the journey, she gets her strength back (really a nice sc) and the hero watches her, empathizes with her journey. In the last sc, we find that the hero realises the element of faith from the heroine only. He finds it in the eyes of her and that moment gets freezed, it becomes eternal!!

Really a nice movie. The shooting has been done in the original locations, so you'll get the flavour of the original journey in the mountains, the tough climbing, the typical setting of a 'choti' to take rest, the different characters, whom we meet during the journey, each of them has a story, the naarator obsereves them and gather the experiences, learns from them and moves ahead. Very very beautiful to realise Spirituality thr' the nature, thr' the journey, (which can be termed as a 'spiritual journey' undertaken by each individual), thr' the music, thr' the river, thr' the characters... Really a nice experience!!

I only got one link in ref with this film, may be you'll get some Pictures of the movie from here:

http://www.banglatorrents.com/showthread.php?12641-Bigolito-Karuna-Janhabi-Jamuna

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Omrito Kumbher Shondhane- Bengali Film.

It is a Spiritual Fim which tells us about the journey to the Kumbh Mela by all the protagonists, directed by famous actor Dilip Roy (the third Pic). The story is originally written by Kaalkut (Samaresh Basu), the cover pic of the book is the second one. And the first one is the poster of the film.

Shubhendu Chattopadhyaya plays the role of the narrator with whose eyes, we are watching the story. He meets many characters in the course of his journey and comes to know about their life story from the short meetings. We have a bengali shopkeeper, three wives of an old man, an old woman attending the 'snan' with her grandson and daughter in law, a 'vairaagi' with his wife, a blind singer, a saint sharing his life story, story of a simple village woman becoming a famous devotional singer, a father searching for his daughter, a daughter in law taking unconventional steps to make her father in law happy, a wife searching for her lost husband and so on... Many many stories, really nice one... You won't able to forget the characters. All the actors have done such superb work that they are edged permanently in our memory even with a role lasting for only 5 min on screen...

The messege which I got from it was that we all are searching for something. Some get or attain it in the Kumbh mela, their journey ends there and some don't, their journey still continues. And even after all these incidents ( i.e.- after the sad happenings or so-called 'tragedies') happen in our life, the life still goes on and on. That is the 'Ultimate Truth' that everythig is transitory. The events of today become past if we look at it tomorrow...

Really an excellent film, worth watching for the sheer congregation of characters, the actual location of a mela, the river and the angle of a 'silent observer' in front of whom, all these events are taking place. When we consider this , then we can actually understand that life is a journey, we move constantly, from one place to another with our different aims, very few people have left this phase to be 'aware' and to 'look at the life', not to move with it in an unaware state (i.e.- with the masses)... Brilliant book and Brilliant direction, acting, casting, script...

This is what Wikipedia says about the Film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita_Kumbher_Sandhane

A review: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060421/asp/etc/story_6110092.asp

And you can watch the film here:

http://www.bharatmovies.com/bengali/watch/amrita-kumbher-sandhane-movie-online.htm

(watch it here, also with some detailed info):

http://www.banglatorrents.com/showthread.php?14860-Amrita-Kumbher-Sandhane-(1982)-Bengali-Movie