"Amanush 2" is not a continuation of its prequel neither in terms of story nor in terms of film making style.The only similarity is that the production house, Director and the leading man is same. Just like "Amanush" ,this is also a story of a man dealing with his psychological problems but this time he is not doing all the inhuman activities to get his lady love rather he is doing all these in search of a new identity to leave his past behind.
The story begins with Raghu a young teenager in Siliguri. His life became hell when his father committed suicide after knowing about the extra marital affair of his mother.To take revenge he kills his mother and he has to go to the remand home until he becomes adult Raghu (Soham Chakraborty). After coming out from jail Raghu tries to make a new start in his life but no one is ready to give him a fresh chance due to his past records. In such a situation Raghu gets an unpredictable opportunity during a bus journey from Siliguri to Kolkata, when his co-passenger Salim dies in the bus accident. Raghu takes Salim's identity proofs and decides to get a fresh start in his life being Salim, who was going to join Medical college in Kolkata. In his college Raghu who is Salim now befriends with Ashok (Anindya Chatterjee), a rich kid who likes to enjoy everything in life but study. Salim and Ashok starts to live in a same apartment where he becomes friend with Ashok's girlfriend Riya (Payel Sarkar) and his other friends. After becoming Salim , Raghu starts dreaming about a good future but is it possible to live whole life with this fake identity? Will it be possible for him to hide his past from his friends? Up to how much extent he has to go to survive with his false identity, that develops the rest of the story.
It is a south Indian movie's remake but unlike other commercial Bengali movies the treatment is more subtle here, there is no routine song and dance and foreign location sequences in this film rather the look and feel is more realistic. But the thing which is missing in this realistic set up is an authentic story. The basic idea of the story is still reliable but it has been stretched a bit too much which make it highly unconvincing. In the first half it took too much time to setup the story which makes it very slow in pace. Although the story picks up in the second half after a surprising twist just before the interval. But again in second half after a point of time it looses its track. The actions taken by the protagonist looks totally confusing and it is very tough to identify with whatever he is doing with his fake identity.
As a director Rajib Kumar has changed his style of film making a lot in comparison to his earlier masala entertainers. He has succeeded too some extent in the new approach of story telling making the look of the film more believable. But he looses points in developing a gripping story and characters. We hope to see more improvement in his movies in future.
Among the rest of the cast it is Anindya Chatterjee has shined in probably the best role of his character so far.Here he has got a character which is more than just a friend of the leading man and he has utilized this chance in the best possible way within his limits.
Rajesh Sharma appears in a cameo in last 20 minutes and he lefts his impression in the small screen time. Payel Sarkar has nothing much to do apart from looking glamorous.
As the movie has skipped the routine song and dance sequences so there is not much scope of music in the film. Still the songs in background and background score works for the movie. It is not a kind of movie where technical team is extraordinary but there job is okay.
Overall it is an average film which may look boring to commercial movie lovers because of lack of commercial ingredients. For the audiences who are looking something beyond just commercial movies it can worth a watch in spite of its unconvincing plot because of the wonderful performance of the leading man.
Good Job Bhai. Thanks.
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