Professor Shanku O El Dorado

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 👎

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 ?!

I want to start the review by appreciating Sandip Ray and team for venturing into the audacious task of bringing Professor Shanku from pages into the screen. The biggest challenge in filming Shanku is the necessity for advanced graphics and exotic location shoot. While camera work in the streets of Sao Paolo and bird's eye views of the amazon rain forest catches attention, the VFX team has done a mediocre job at best. Acting through out the film has been reasonably good from the Indian actors. Dhritiman as Professor Shanku seems unnecessarily annoyed at times but overall has portrayed the character well. Subhashis Chakraborty fits in the role of Nakur babu perfectly too. However, the foreign actors in the roles of Dr. Sauders and Krol are too expressive, even tiring at times. The use of music in the film is commendable, enhances the cinematic experience. Sandip Ray has not veered far off from the Satyajit Ray school of music, the tunes in the movie sometimes reminded me of the Feluda theme. However, the main issue with the movie to me is it fails to hold your attention. There is no build-up of suspense, no sequence for provoking thought in the audience; It's more like a grand Brazilian travelogue. I would like to see more audience engagements in the upcoming Shanku ventures.

Unbelievable poor script and story dampens the enthusiasm of a Shonku fan. The movie looks like a documentary and less of a movie. The adventure movie doesnt build up pace even midway and fails to keep the audience interested.

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.