Thursday, July 19, 2007
bong connection.....is it?
Aahhhhh bong connection...the latest movie coming from Anjan Dutta...a crossover movie with porombroto...raima sen..piya and shayan munshi playing the main characters...a story mainly concentrating on porom n shayan...as the former leaves kolkata for his job in houston and the latter setting his foot in kolkata..for his musical career since kolkata is where his music belongs..well good enough!...now the major distinction between kolkata n houston....since the traditional kolkata had to be shown..mainly the old fading large houses of north bengal was chosen as the house where shayan comes to stay with his family..and oh yes the pickles left on the terrace..the bengali touch ofcors..and 'shingaras' and 'luchi' for breakfast..the 'typical' middle aged bong husband played my saswata...is also included..dunno y thou! maybe to show the disparity between shayan n him...could be..well enuf! and houston...well the land of thugs gays and discomfort..thats what i felt..porom was never comfortable there...neway back in kolkata next comes in raima sen..well she is the love interest of porom who is apparently waiting for him to return and basically do smething abt their relationship...only a small part we were allowed to see in the scene shot in flury's ofcors...the new age couple..breakfast at tiffanys..oops i mean flurys! duh-uh!!....neway coming back to shayan n raima..they strike n odd friendship..they sang a few songs..nothing romantic between them thruout the movie..dunno y shayan was asking her to confess that she did feel for him on their way back to airport...when shayan was abt to leave for abroad!!..since he cudnt take the narrow mindedness of his family..of the people of kolkata who were more interested in synthesizer n saxophone...while he wanted to stick to the rabindrasangeet n baaul songs!!!! is that y he went to shantiniketan n sang n odd remix version of 'pagla hawa' by bikram ghosh??..there was no baul in it?? oh well there were two baul dancers..oh they were dancing...hence their involvement ofcors!!...but i have to say...shayans first song at someplace else was nice enough...sung by shaan ofcors..dunno y the hindi lyrics..well his life his song...who am I!!! but shayan's acting was good enuf..the long speech to his jethu in broken bengali was short and to the point..and whatever he wanted to say as a true bengali boy was alright!!....and now porombroto...well i didnt get his story track entirely..from what i understood..he went to houston..befriended a bangladeshi taxi driver who had a good range of girlfriends in houston to keep him busy and a daughter back home..and that he died towards the end of the movie..was a nice chap thou..!! and porom well...he was interested in pia...wanted a lot from her..held himself back..the true bengali boy yet again..and then freaked her parents out when they were thinking of him as their daughter's groom...oops! well the nri bengalis were also quite happy in their small kolkata..sitting sme 1000 miles away from kolkata on carpets and ac rooms and singing bangali songs over a plate of ilish maach and bhaat n maach bhaja...ohh how sweet!!!...the essence of being a bengali..smewhere stuck in the menu!! ahem...well theres nothing much in porombroto's story..his bong connection got lost smewhere in beer and bed!!!...neway...all was not bad in the movie...the songs were quite nice..thou odd timing i must say...but the end of the movie was quite practical...each going to where they belonged...BUT..the way shayan's exit was compensated with porom's entry..the audience started laughing...but plz it wasnt funny at all!!!! IN YOUR FACE HUMOR...i say! neway...the movie ended...but inspite of my review..i wud like to add...maybe this movie is the greatest movie of all times..but as n audience i failed to connect to this movie..n m a bong?! so well there was no bong connection for me at all....!!!!!! A HUGE LET DOWN!....
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4 comments:
u tell me!!wastage of buckss...gawdd i cud have made a bettr film or acted better dan parambrata...directors listening???!!
yup....we r here we r here!!!! lol!
desultory
ya rajni....thats the word for the film...haha!
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