sundeepmukherjee2000

Raavan is breathtakingly beautiful with good performance from Abhishek, Vikram and Aish (except for the climax). Santosh Sivans camera is yet again mesmerising. Watching Abishek reminds of his illustrious dad 35 years back but his voice needs a little more maturity to be electrifying in similar roles as his fathers. Vikram underplayed as an emotionless cop. Govinda as Hanuman, Ravi Kishen as Laksman, Priyamani as Abhi's sister and Nikhil Dwivedi as Vikram's aide needs special credit for their performances. Screenplay is taut and Mani's storytelling is accurately Mani style. The only letdown is the background score and music is forgettable. The climax is shot marvellously. But shudn't Sita have gone to Raavan in todays world? Overall a nice watchable movie. Likely to have repeat viewers. Rated 7 of 10.

The Indian version starts interestingly but fizzes out immediately after the brilliant dance performance by Hritik and Kangana. Photography is somewhat scratchy at times and the exuberance of the brilliant landscape of USA or Mexico is nowhere experienced throughout. It has extremely poor screenplay and direction is pathetic. Anurag Basu has completely failed in his biggest attempt. It starts dragging as soon as it entered the main plot. Most interestingly there is hardly any material for the audience to wait and look forward for the next scene, which is totally attributable to very poor screenplay. The so called ending twist never comes through and the audience is frustrated. A total looser. Go watch Badmaash Company instead, which is a Sholay in comparison to a Ramgarh Ki Sholay. I am disappointed.

Saw Abohoman today at Priya.

Rituparno has made a sincere effort from his side in reminiscing his old flavor, but that which dwindled off late with Shob Choritro Kalponik was yet unfound with fallacies abound.

I found the movie barely pleasing but given the spate of sick bangla films made of late including the director's own SCK (supra) I found it better than most.

Direction and screenplay was average, editing bleak, music good at times, cinematographic appeal almost invisible.

Whereas Dipankar Day probably gave the best performance of his lifetime till date, Momota Shankar was patchy, faltering in dialogue delivery many a times (which escaped the editing as well as dubbing sessions) which might have been natural in normal lingo but unpardonable for films. The tired and unfit looking Ria Sen with a pillow tied to her belly had looked better in her MMS. Jishu, Saswati Guhathakurta and Sumanta(?) Mukherjee are wasted too. Dipankar's mother was endearing to watch though. The very brief role of Labony Sarkar(?)gave an excellent and hardly ever seen better b4 portrayal of a challenged adult.

Ananya Chatterjee, who's to be the second main lead here, got her accent all wrong. For an illiterate actress of today to Noti Binodini of a century old era, her fluent English pronunciation are not only unbearable but also a pain to bear for any sensible movie lover. She stood out performance wise when delivering dialogues as modern Shrimati, but failed utterly as Bini (Noti Binodini).

Rituparno should have been more careful with his choice of actor's dialogue delivery theatrics and story build up.

The viewer reaction was unpleasing for this failed venture.

Another barely watchable movie. 3/10 overall. Dipankar and Labony gets 10/10. The movies not that bad, just that it was so made to look and feel bad. A disappointment.