Review of Bengali Film Bitnoon

Abhijit Guha and Sudenshna Roy have made their own brand of films in recent past where they made light hearted films about urban people, for urban audiences. Sometime they got success too but not every time. Last year they had tried to focus on the subject of post marital issues, after having kids how the equation between husband and wife changes, in the film "Biye Not Out". It did not worked at all may be that's why they came back with another movie "Bitnoon" with almost similar topic only with more reliable actors and some added glamour.

The subject of "Bitnoon" is very cliche it has been told so many times in so many movies in different languages. When a married couples love life or better said sex life goes stagnant as

the wife gets busy with household works and kids then the husband have to look out for an extra marital affair to add some spice to his boring life. Here it is the story of a not so young married couple Rahul (Ritwick Chakraborty) and Mousumi (Gargi Roychoudhury) who are happily married with a school going kid. But after having their son they don't get much scope to have sex. As a result both of them are frustrated but still their life is going on as they have no other option. But one day Rahul gets an opportunity to make an exciting friendship with an attractive girl Rusha (Sayani Ghosh). Very soon their friendship becomes something more than just friendship and they start liking each other. Rusha is all aware of Rahul's marital status from the beginning, but still she moves on with the relationship. After spending some more time with Rahul she start feeling the need of marriage with Rahul. Now Rahul is in a dilemma to chose between his family and responsibility or his love for Rusha. Finally  in the climax he comes to a conclusion which is very cliche and politically correct and everyone have seen that so many times. Although there is a twist in the tale in the final reel but that too is not totally unpredictable and does not add any extra value.

No matter how cliche the story is but still there are lots of scope of entertainment and lots of script writers have made hilarious comedy out of extra marital affair stories but unfortunately screenplay writer Padmanava Dasgupta could not do that with the script of "Bitnoon".Except for the opening sequence, from the beginning the story looks very tired

and boring. The monotonous marital life of Rahul and Mousumi makes the audiences more bore than the protagonists on the screen. Even after addition of the character of Rusha people expect to have some funny moments but it is missing. Also Rahul and Rusha come close to each other so rapidly that it looks very unconvincing, specially where Rahul is still in love with his wife then why he gets attracted to Rusha so easily and Rusha almost jumps to have an affair with a married man that too without any purpose as if he is not getting any other good guy for having an affair. So the track of Rahul and Rusha looks very much forced. Although there are some funny moments in the second half when Rahul goes for a secret outing with Rusha at a resort , but that too does not stayed long. The climax of course is very cliche and no one cares about the decision taken by Rahul or Rusha because their relationship was not convincing enough from the beginning so no  one is bothered about their future.The dialogues are very ordinary and not funny at all.

As directors Abijit Guha and Sudeshna Roy has done an average job. They have chosen a very old story and also presented in the same way, the way we have seen such stories so many times. It could not be a story of any perfect zone, neither its a comedy nor a serious drama about extra marital relationship. The treatment to the film is very much kind of short films made for television. 

There are three main characters and all the main three leads are dependable actors which is a good thing about the movie. It is refreshing to watch Ritwick Chakraborty in well educated high ranking officer's role otherwise he was too much repetitive as lower middle class para guy type of roles in his last few films. Ritwick has played his part honestly , his fear , his dilemma , his longing for sex looks real on screen. He is a good actor and has done good job in the limited scope of such type cast husband role.
The same can not be said for the leading lady of the film Gargi Roychoudhury. She has played the similar role of a housewife in "Raamdhanu" last year and it looks like she is just doing a continuation of the same role of a housewife busy with husband, kid and household works. In fact a good actress like her who can light up the screen in just a cameo has not been given a good role here. Still she tries to do her job quite well and she looks very natural in her performance.
The spice part of this boring story is Sayani Ghosh. She is very flamboyant , chirpy , bubbly kind of girl with fresh energy just like her onscreen character Rusha. She does her part very well, only in the dancing sequences she looks little fat and her dancing was also not that good provided she play a professional dancer. But if we can overlook that part then she is good in the rest of the movie. Though her character is half baked but with her smart presence and good acting she makes up for that.

The technical team has done just an okay job. Although the film is just 108 minutes but it still looks stretched specially in the first half may be the editor could have done a better job in that case. There are some issue with sound designing too. Every time in the film.when a song is playing on TV, the songs video and and audio does not match. As the songs playing on TV are so much popular that it is difficult to overlook that.
The music has been composed by Raghav-Sudeen duo who have made their debut as music composers. Their first film album has nothing good to offer , the songs has been used in background in the movie and does have any added value in them.

Over all it is just an average movie about the post married life crisis. The film has nothing new to offer. The film can be avoided without any doubt unless you have any other option to spend time or you are a die hard fan of Ritwick Chakraborty.