Tritiyo Adhyay brings Bengali cinema into a new era of serious romantic thriller film. The storyline started with a lot of confusions and misleadings ending up with a simple story of lovers who give their lives for each other like the mainstream Hindi Feature of 1981- Ek Duje Ki Liye. The entire film was like a book reading session skipping between chapters, a master way of telling a story on the celluloid, which is rarely seen in the World Cinema. Manoj A. Michigan, the Director of the film came a long way from Hello Kolkata, Damadol, 89, Ami Joy chatterjee to Tritiyo Adhyay, a master story teller from his childhood.
The intercuts between the teenage college goer couple and the adult Abir Chatterjee looking for his author father S K Chattopadhyay were tactfully timed. The DoP of Tritya Adhyay, Supriyo Dutta had some fantastic technical shots from drones and illustrated Deogarh beautifully. He is a Cinematographer of World class. A scene that kept me thinking is when we see Abir shoot a target in a fish market and the target falls on a heap of fishes and we a fish gasping for breath.
Abir and Paoli played their roles beautifully with their powerful acting skills. Sourav and Arunima, the new faces in the silver screen matched the standards of their counterparts of Abir and Paoli. The interesting part of the film was the humble servant, David whose role was played by the Director himself in a broader appearance than that of Hitchcock. Orin Prosenjit Das who scored the film fabulously added to the suspense of this romantic thriller.
Sanglap Bhowmik have improved his skills in editing to a level that he has mastered the timings of cutting between the shots. Incidentally we see him as great singer.
Manoj A. Michigan is versatile story teller from Comedy, family drama to romantic thriller gives us a hope of seeing more variety of his story telling.
