Bhooter Bhabishyat

I recently watched this movie in a cinema hall and i felt it could be a spooky horror film but it was different and outstanding. This movie has all the elements that makes this two hour journey an absolute treat to watch. The plot is quite simple and it reaches to all section of masses.

The atmosphere,cinematography,lighting,acting,costumes,music are just brilliant but the most important aspect i feel are the dialogues that are quite intriguing and showcases the 'intelligent wit' of the film!!!

Nevertheless to say, the dialogues actually bring the flavor of comedy and you are bound to laugh at your seat. Good luck to Bengali Art films and kudos to the director Anik Dutta for presenting us such a film in his debut.

Excellent movie,really appreciable,The topic which the director / writer has chosen is very real and very much substantial in the current scenario of kolkata. But the story line / scrip, which have been chosen to express the same in front of audience is truly remarkable. Anything related to ghost brings a certain kind of chilling effect / horror within us. But may be this is the first time I am watching a movie where Ghost have been used as a element of comedy.

Best of luck to the whole cast and crew and expecting more and more this kind of movies from the director.

It reminds us the famous movie "Hirak Rajar Deshe" by Late Satyajit Roy.

Again congrats and best of luck.

The 'chhaya (shadow) chhobi' by Anik Dutta overshadows ghost films of both Tollywood and Bollywood taken together in recent times. The synthetic, eery and blood-curdling horror is not the mainstay here; instead, the ghosts - from several strata and time periods - try means of survival from their live counterparts who are overtaken by an inhuman changeover resulting in unwittingly chasing out ghosts from haunted mansions. How the real ghosts - an endangered species now - will drive away the real-estate sharks is not the attractant of the film. Though the film is not an unplumbed one as regards the delivery of message, yet messages run over almost all the delivered dialogues, mostly laced with puns, and make the piece a unique experience, heretofore unmatched by and large, presenting the changing face of the city of Kolkata gradually being taken over by promoters and reality agents; thus changing Kolkata's heritage into Hertfordshire.

Dutta borrows directly, bathing in the light of his own interpretation, from Ray - his Gupi Bagha trilogy, his style of dialogues, his range of humour and so on - and Dutta does this in a rather grandiloquent and rarefied manner heaping loads of honour and expressing allegiance to Ray along the way unflinchingly.

Story, screenplay, lyrics and direction amalgamate into a homogeneous mixture of great cinema. Aveek Mukhopadhyay's cinematography calls for praise though there are still vestiges of development. Arghyakamal Mitra has, as always, shown his craft here piecing together the various time- frames. Indranil Ghosh's work is flawless like in most other films, too. Kanan Devi's nasal voice from the by-gone era tones up the pathos of one of the messages the film seamlessly delivers - practice of clandestine concubinage by some spoilt upstarts and the well-off of the time. Coming down to the characters, their engaging idiosyncrasies and their pathos to boot make this seriocomedy a psychotherapeutic exercise giving the right directions and at the same time parodying the state of affairs in Kolkata and elsewhere. What we have to remember is that branches of development must not turn deadwood in the end.

One stark difference between Ray and his two great contemporaries Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak is that Ray's movies, although being of the so-called art film genre, were as acceptable and entertaining to the masses as they appeal to the senses of the intelligentsia. Anik Dutta's directorial debut primarily catches that aspect of film-making where he was able to delve into Bangalis' thoughts and existence through generations across sections of the society via the multicoloured characterisations in this film. It is a wholesome entertainer which drives home pertinent points of modern and erstwhile Bengali society through comic relief to the masses. Read a full-blown article on the front page of a popular Bengali daily (which happened to publish the story the film is based on) and decided to watch this one, and it matched up to its review, a deservedly huge huge hit and a wonderful movie... 7/10

Hey, this movie is entertaining especially for it's fatuous relationships among the ghost family members. Veteran actor Paran Bandapadhyay acted so keenly and pulled my attention till the end. Enjoy the musical horror entertainment.