A Film Dissection On Facebook

Below is a conversation I just had with a person I would call more a role model than a friend...we were discussing a bengali film we both had happened to see.

The film is a national award winner with an 'intellectual' star cast one would normally think before pointing fingers at but this was a private chat between people who don't mind calling a spade a spade and it made for an interesting read, so I thought I will share with you.


I have added a link to the film at the end for those who may get curious enough to want to know more. :)

A

do u watch rituparno ghosh films - then u may not like antaheen

its based on saumya vishwanathans story

but just too many stories happening

1:22pmPriyanka

i do watch those films....infact i have seen antaheen...just wanted to know what u felt about it

A

or maybe i am not used to watching adhunik bong films

1:23pmPriyanka

same here......we normally catch a lot of world cinema where this story within story format is carried on fairly well.....but in this case I found it a lil loose....somehow

A

i thought there were too many tracks, could have had less stories, sharmila story was worthless, aparna and ranjan were ok

but too stretched

then there were songs

1:24pmPriyanka

the songs were terrible.....

Ambika

true

i was forwarding them

1:24pmPriyanka

we had caught anuranan i guess from the same director and had loved it...so this disappointed doubly

A

for eg when u watch titli then u know wht relationships are

but not this one

when he is not

rahul bose at times looked very fake

1:25pmPriyanka

and i didnt like the over synchronized sets either....

A

he is so real in mr and mrs, even the shaadi ke side effects bit, and park avenye

i hvnt watched anuranan

who is in the film

u have a CD or downloaded

1:26pmPriyanka

so very true.....underused completely i mean rahul...

A

n rahul is so rocking

1:26pmPriyanka

i had borrowed a Cd from friends

A

ok

and then aparna sen with her old camera and taking pics of the pishi

1:27pmPriyanka

it had raima sen, rahul bose and a few others ....loved it....try and catch that one if u can...

A

was so boring

yes

will

have u wathced titli

1:28pmPriyanka

and i didnt like aparna a grandmom acting as if she is barely in her forties or something...I mean mentally i couldnt place her in that role...sharmila looked more real than her....which given her 'nakami' is almost unbelievable

1:29pA

the guy who played her husband was more like it

the age and the pipe etc

1:29pmPriyanka

i think i have caught titli.....

A

but aparna had a horrible hair do

1:29pmPriyanka

though cant recollect the story immediately

yes ranjan was cute....

;)

A

aparna is konkonas mother and they bump into a film star (mithun) whose car goes kaput in the hills

1:30pmPriyanka

I loved aparnas neck pieces tho they couldnt hide the sagging skin underneath

A

i loved them too

and theblack and white sari

1:30pmPriyanka

no then i havent...i think we had borrowed the CD but couldnt watch it...so the name seemed familiar

oh yes that was very pretty

A

the sequence where he goes to rescue the young boy was horrid

including his first case

where on earth do they use live TV when police is closing a case

was hilarious

1:32pmPriyanka

i am almost tempted to copy this discussion onto my blog...we have completely taken the film to pieces...

A

true

infact i was wondering if the director reads this then he will be sad

very sad indeed

1:32pmPriyanka

true about that sequence...it was so bollywood like

very unlike rahul to do something like this

A

and to top it all a non bong is commenting on the pseudo-intellectual film

and the house they had was so beautiful

looked like an old bong house

1:35pmPriyanka

which one?? ranjon's?

A

no

rahul

1:35pmPriyanka

who is a non bong?? u ?? u are more bong than me atleast...

A

ranjos was stinking of artdinox

so was it in KCK

1:36pmPriyanka

yes that was pretty and more natural than the one the girl lived in that was over arranged

A

i am non bong

garv se bolo hum non bong hain

1:36pmPriyanka

hahaha....yeah i screamed artdinox when i saw the mugs and tea set

A

brb

gotta eat

1:36pmPriyanka

same here...

The film on wikipedia