Professor Shanku O El Dorado

My review is purely based on my perspective as an audience. I do read good stories as well. 1. This character of Shoku by Satyajit Ray has a nostalgic value for most of Bengali children of the 80s and 90s. Portraying him with mobile phones and laptops doesn't really strike the right cord. 2. Using VfX should be logical and shouldn't be used unnecessarily. Like there is a scene where Shonku dials or saves number from a holographic gadget. Why? If you have more convenient mobile phone. The teleconference by a holographic projector seemed unconvincing. It would have been better if all the guys were sitting as normal instead of floating over the table. Eg. In Avenger movies. 3. The screenplay was so boring that I had to fast forward a lot. The scenes of people travelling were... of only them travelling and driving, nothing else. 4. The story should have taken place in the 80s. 5. The acting all around was mediocre. Seemed like the casting director had hired some foreign tourists with elementary acting skills. 6. Only good part is the effort put in and indeed the professionals behind the camera have worked hard but the whole thing fell apart due to poor conceptualizing and screenplay.

Professor Shonku O El Dorado - Based on the original story "Nakur Babu O El Dorado" by Satyajit Ray that featured in Anandamela in 1980, this film doesn't waste any time and gets into the action quite hurriedly. The storyline is almost 4 decades old, but its backdrop is modern (2019, thus giving the adventure a feel of obsolescence, in spite of a glossy presentation. The science fiction that's forty years old fails to create the intended astonishment among the audience as over the last couple of decades, viewers have been exposed to humongous development of science and technology, and western films have created a deep impact already. Now with Netflix and Amazon Prime in our living rooms, Professor Shonku appears jaded, tired and grossly outdated. I am not so certain even if children will be thrilled with this presentation. Nevertheless, Dhritiman Chatterjee is sophisticated and suave, albeit lacking the energy to pull through the film for his own intrinsic value.

Hope the Producer and team reads this.

I'm a nobody, I don't know camera angle direction or post production, acting I know and knew ;) and read few shonku stories, read more after the movie. I'm more a business man.

No emotions pls....

My take is: opportunities lost....

1. Showing Shonku in current generation was not required Robu lost, Abhiram lost all lost... We could have easily showed this character in past like Van Heilsing :) or the Irish Man :D

2. This should not have been first movie, we lost byom jatrir dyari... You will make it up .... but was not needed; the budget for São Paulo would have covered the vfx for byomjatri

3. In the screen play we skipped Sahnku's address to public? First international address ... Very amateurish....

.... It's a disaster .... I can't right more ... We already lost a fortune by now....

If you are an artist

No Character Bulid up... Mechanical... Too many things at the end....

Sorry... 1 Star + 3 Star being the first attempt 👎

The whole movie is just a joke. No character build up. Funny actings all over.

While the storyline is quite good, the presentation lacks the zing required for a modern Cinema experience largely. Visuals of the Brazil landscape are the main attraction, but has been underplayed.

Anaconda scene, ElDorado scenes could have been longer and more spectacular.

Dialogues delivery is much too slow, deliberate and uninteresting across the board.

Unnecessary scenes are too lengthy. Hotel scenes should have been a minimum, while adventure in Amazon Forest, ElDorado should have been emphasized.

Does the director really have to spend so much time on characters introducing themselves to each other, painfully slowly. Who does that in real life ?!