Review of Bengali movie "Galpo Holeo Satyi"

In Bengali Film industry now a days its very common to make the remake of a south Indian action potboiler but going against the normal rules director Birsa Dasgupta has taken an attempt to remake a South Indian horror film and it must be said he has adapted the story very well in Bengali film setup.

This is the story of a Pizza delivery boy Rudra (Soham Chakraborty) who live with his live in partner Anuradha (Mimi Chakraborty) who is a supernatural thriller writer. Their life was going on okay but one day Rudra goes to deliver Pizza to a haunted house and everything changes after that.

More than half of the story revolves around Rudra's encounter with the ghosts in the haunted house and in spite of using so many cliched horror elements still it looks interesting and is terrifying enough to give you some goose bumps. The screenplay has been adapted scene by scene from the original South Indian film so there is nothing to give credit here. There are some loop holes in the screenplay specially it comes to the audiences mind after the big twist towards the end. In the first 30 minutes a simple love story has been shown between Rudra and Mimi which is irrelevant to the main subject but due the beautiful chemistry of the leading pair it looks nice.

As a director Birsa Dasgupta has always tried to make movies in some different and uncommon genre. And he deserves credit for bringing back supernatural thriller to the Bengali cinema. His direction is nice from the portrayal of an young live in couple in Kolkata to the scenes in  the haunted house to the big twist in the end he has handled all that with perfection. Only he could have made some logical changes to the script towards the climax.

Soham Chakraborty has done a fantastic job as Rudra. For most of the parts in the haunted house sequences he has to act alone and he has carried away the scenes with his superb body language and expressions. It is probably one of his best performance.
Mimi Chakraborty has lesser screen time but she has managed to shine on her own within this limited scope. Her on screen chemistry with Soham is also very nice.

Among the supporting cast Rajatava Dutta is okay as Rudra's Boss. Sayani has done good job as the ghost in the haunted house.

In a horror film the technical team has a huge responsibility and the two persons who has done complete justice with their work are cinematographer Subhankar Bhar and sound designer Anirban Sengupta and Dipankar Chaki. For almost one hour during the haunted house scenes the cinematographer has to shoot using only a torch light and Subhankar Bhar has done full justice in those sequences with his camera. Apart from that his excellent camerawork can be seen in the song "Ei Bhalo Ei Kharap" too. The editing is okay. The visual effects are good. Only the make up artiste could have done a better job specially with the make up of the ghosts.

In a horror film there is not much scope of music but still music composer Indradip Dasgupta has managed to leave impression with the romantic song "Ei Bhalo Ei Kharap". Apart from that the background music is also good enough to create the spooky feeling. 

Overall "Galpo Holeo Satyi" is a good attempt to make a supernatural thriller. Maybe the twist at the end may not appeal to everyone but if you are a fan of horror films then you can give it a try specially for the brilliant performance of the leading couple and the technicians.