As the name itself suggests #MandobasarGalplo is not like any regular love story rather it is about the dark side of love when love becomes obsession. It is a psychological thriller dealing with the complexity of obsessive lovers.
The story starts with Ahana (Paoli Dam) who is a renowned film director but she is going through a bad phase in her personal life as she is going through a mental trauma. She was in a relationship with a musician Ritwick (Kaushik Sen) who died accidentally just two days before their marriage. Ahana broke down completely after this incident and even she needed therapy from her psychiatrist friend Sayantan (Parambrata Chatterjee). Ahana has almost lost interest in everything but Sayantan insists her to go back to movie making to divert her mind. She starts her new film and while finding a new lead she finds a guy Rick (Indrashish Roy) who is also a musician and have similar habits like Ritwick. This similarities brings Ahana closer to Rick and she starts feeling possessive towards Rick considering him as a replacement of Ritwick.But her attachment toward her movie's leading man start impacting the film as well as the life of all the people around Ahana and her film. Finally towards the end, there comes a surprising twist which changes the equation of all the relationship.
The story is fresh for Bengali movies but the screenplay is not that tight as it must be to be an engaging thriller. In first half most of the time has been wasted to introduce the characters. The main suspense starts building towards the end and the big twist comes too late just before the climax. Just before the climax lots of things happened suddenly and it was too much to digest at one go. Another bad thing is even after revealing all the secrets lots of questions remains unanswered about the main protagonist as the whole focus shifts to some other character who was mostly ignored for the rest of the movie.
As director Tathagata Banerjee has chosen good actors but he looks immature to handle such complex subject. His portrayal of mentally depressed patients is too cliche and after one point it starts looking repetitive.
Paoli Dam is very good actress and she has tried her best to show the mental instability of Ahana though in some portions it looks like a continuation of her character from #Zulfiqar but still she has managed quite well with the mood swings of the character. Parambrata Chatterjee is very natural and have underplayed the character very well, we wish he would have got more screentime. Indrashish Roy looks a misfit in his character of a musician and actor. He looks overweight to be a actor and also in the scenes where he have to play guitar as a trained musician he looks under rehearsed. Kaushik Send is good in an extended cameo.
In the crowd of the veterans young talents Anindya Chartterjee and Dipanwita have left impression in significant roles.
Ashok Bhadra's music is okay but considering the story revolves around two musicians there could have been better scope for music which is not there.
Overall it is a good attempt to try a fresh and complex subject but it could not live up to the expectations. Still this can be watched once for the good performances of the lead actors.
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