No Bed of Roses

This is kind a hyped movie.but when i saw,its story is too average. It's good but not that much. It Didn't fulfil my expectations.

The poster boy of our Bangladeshi cinema Mostofa Sarwar Farooki was my idol,thought he was the guy who will bring revolution to cinema and give our cinema a new language and set a benchmark that young film makers will follow.But seeing his last couple of films i think our industry has to wait a bit longer to find a trendsetter.Now coming to the film i must say farooki outdone himself in this movie.he is like in a competition with himself how to make the worst movie than the previous one.He had the opportunity to make an epic movie at least a decent one as the story of the film revolves around famous writer in Bangladesh and people were hyped about it.Then he had this ridiculous idea to cast an indo international star who can barely speak bangla but portrays a bengali film director.Tried to tell the story in non linear way but failed miserably.The film didn't gave me any emotional attachment to the characters and i felt the film was very shallow.I dont mind watching slow paced cinema or if its over 3 hours as long it holds the attention but irfans acting with farookis trademark tacky camera movement the film become intolerable.The film should be called Doob:102 mints of DISAPPOINTMENT .At least the title will give a heads up to the people.

The real-life events this movie is based on was a huge scandal and a movie about that is likely to catch the attention of those who have heard of the scandal. It's an art house film. It stars famous actors from Bangladesh and West Bengal. To top it off, the star is Irrfan Khan of both Bollywood and Hollywood fame. This movie should have international acclaim. Expectations are high. And it disappoints. Terrible pacing. Characters are not established well. If you didn't know the backstory, you'd be hopelessly lost. If you know the backstory, you still need to work really hard to map the fictional characters to the real-life people. The dialogue felt unnatural. And it was So. Slow. I was expecting a nuanced depiction of the scandal, but it the movie only ever scratched the surface and never dug deep. It wasted all it's time on irrelevant flashback shots.

When you look at the big screen inside the huge dark auditorium, after the very moment, when light gets off, you start to expect many thing from the screen. You demand with your own aesthetics and sensibilities, you judge with your own sense of value judgement and morality, you try to get hold of things which are there on screen. A review is nothing but the subjective interpretation of these expectations, where, this title and this review is nothing exceptional.

Going back to the main question, what do you expect from a movie? I can't answer any other's statements as deeply as I can answer my own. I expect a movie to be "A Movie" at first, everything else is less important to me. Obviously that doesn't mean that a film is showing genocide in a very artistic way and my mode of reception is positive with the film. The problem with any kind of afterthought is that this is bound to be subjective, and the dangerous debate and miscommunication which is happening in Bangladesh now, is utterly unnecessary and 'cinema-less', if not unexpected and regressive. "Doob" is a fascinating movie experience for me. After a long time finally I've succeeded to speak for a contemporary industry-produced 'Bangla' movie whole heartedly. We know the sort of pros and cons of working within the heinous circle of any film industry, but, I've to appreciate the major mature steps which Farooki took in the course of making this movie.

Aesthetically, most of the time the movie relied on a very subtle tone and an intimate texture. There are no extra scenes or running motions within the sequence. (Though he can't retain this mature treatment throughout the movie) There are lots of pause and spaces, as the basic human relationships and emotions are. We cannot rush up everything in our 'real' mode of relationships, why should we continuously cut back and forth within one scene and destroy the spatial continuity of the 'realistic' cinema? 'Doob' respects the space between two people, the pause, the subtle gaze, the loss of words. It doesn't try to rush up everything with a single aim to tell the story. In other words, "Doob" adopts an aesthetic to create the story, rather than telling everything in a running mode.

Obviously there are flaws. Which work of art is perfect in the world? But it is the positive power of the film that it can engage the viewer with a serious mode of communication, one wants to forget about the problematic parts soon after watching the movie.

Finally the debate concerning the morality and the 'biopic-like' aspects of this movie, is, at least to me, an utter bullshit. Film, as any other serious art form, offers a parallel world of reality, which should be judged only with its own aesthetics and language. As far as this movie in concerned, it is an extraordinary piece of work which have managed to be a 'film' in the true sense of the term. Everything else (namely, the morality, biopic-like assumptions and other nonsense) doesn't matter at all.

Starting of this movie was exceptional.In the middle things started getting confusing and the pace was lost.There are parts in this movie it is bland, no dialogue.moreover while rest of cast was speaking Bengali. zahid hasan (played by Irfan Khan)was speaking in English . Moreover huge parts of the movie were censored. The whole movie felt uncomplete