Almost one and half year ago a new age sleuth was introduced
in Bengali cinema who is very much different from the regular Bengali
cinelover’s favourite Byomkesh or Feluda, he is Shabor Dasgupta, from Kolkata
police crime branch. All credit goes to director Arindam Sil for bringing
Shabor from the pages of Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay novels to the silver screen.
His maiden attempt with Shabor became hugely popular and as a result the
leading production house of Tollywood, Shree Venkatesh Films decided to join
hands with Arindam Sil to make it a franchise. As a result now we have the
second part of Goyenda Shabor Series which is #EaglerChokh. When the first
movie of this series #EbarShabor was released there were no expectations from
that one but this time audience have high hopes with #EaglerChokh , so whether
the movie has been successful to fulfil all the expectation, let’s find out.
Just like #EbarShabor , #EaglerChokh too is a complex story
of love, desire, sex, greed, betrayal and complex human emotions, only this
time it has more adult contents in the
The crime scene here is the murder of one woman
Nandini(Payel Sarkar) and an attempt to murder of the other woman
in that house Shibangi(Joya Ahsaan). Shibangi is the wife of a rich business
man Bishan Roy (Anirban Bhattacharya) and Nandini is Shibangi’s friend cum
business partner who stays with Bishan and Shibangi in the same house. The
crime happened in absence of Bishan when he was out of town. In the first
investigation Police consider it as just a case of robbery and accidental
murder, but the Junior Investigation officer (Gaurav Chakraborty) has doubt
that it is more than just a robbery so he insists Shabor (Saswata Chatterjee)
to get involved in this case along with his assistant Nandlal (Shubrajit
Dutta).
While doing his investigation Shabor finds the case is not
that simple and there are so many layers. He also comes to know that Bishan is
an alcoholic and is suffering from psychological trauma of getting sexually abused
by an elderly woman in his teenage. He hates to have any emotional
relationships with any woman but enjoys having sexual pleasure with women once
he is drunk. There are many women in his life who are physically attracted to
him; Nandini is one of those women. The more Shabor proceeds with his
investigation he founds every person in the suspect list has some secrets with
them. The more deep he goes; he finds darker side of human emotion which are
controlling the sub conscious mind of the victims as well as the suspects.
The story and screenplay has been written by Arindam Sil
along with Padmanava Dasgupta is very interesting and it keeps the audience engaged
for every single frame. By the time the movie ends one will hardly care to know
who the culprit is; rather the audience will get involved more in the dark
secret which gets revealed in the climax. The length of the film is near about
two hours so it is precise and will never bore you.
As a director Arindam Sil has already proved his calibre in
his earlier thrillers and this time too he has not disappointed his fans. His
signature style of storytelling is there in every shot. He knows to present his
story in a stylish way making it more attractive to the audiences. This time
too he has managed to make the look and feel very urban and stylish. Also he
knows while directing a crime thriller when to disclose how much to make the suspense
alive till the end.
Among the actors, Saswata Chatterjee is very effective as
the smart cop Shabor Dasgupta. His dialogue delivery, his body language is
perfect for the character only he needs to work a bit on his weight to look
more fit specially in the action sequences. He has worked really well to
maintain continuity of his character from the first part. Also his comic timing
with his assistant Nanda is bang on. Subhrajit Dutta has improved a lot from
his earlier portrayal of Nanda, this time he has made his presence felt more
than last time. His comedy is perfect relief in the rather serious intense
drama.
Anirban Bhattacharya who is mainly a theatre actor has done
a wonderful job. He is excellent as Bishan Roy, a person going through psychological
trauma. As per the story he is not handsome but attractive and we must say he has
carried his stylish look such a way that he looks really attractive. Also in
his drunk scenes he is perfectly alright.
There are too many female characters but Joya Ahsaan has
done the best job among them. For most of the part, Joya has played a patient
on hospital bed and she has done excellent job to portray her physical pain
along with her mental stress that she is going through. She is one fine actress
who gets very less chance in Bengali movies and we deserve to see her in more
films with powerful characters.
Payel Sarkar is okay in a character with negative shades but
she has not much scope. Debutante Riya Banik has done quite a good job as Janhavi
a teenager girl who works as an assistant to Shibangi. She has a good role and
she has done full justice with that.
Ushosi fails to impress in her acting debut. Gaurav
Chakraborty , June Malia and Arunima Ghosh are alright in their extended
cameos.
The technical team is brilliant to make the film more
stylish, rich and interesting look and feel wise. The cinematography by Shoumik
Halder is eye catching; the background music and songs done by Bickram Ghosh
are good. Editor has worked really well with his scissors to make the film
crisp and engaging which is required for a thriller. Special mention should be
given for production design department, costumes designer and make-up artist
who have given the film a really stylish urban look.
Overall #EaglerChokh has fulfilled all the expectation as a
successor of #EbarShabor. It has pace, suspense, drama and some good acting. While
watching the film you will feel yourself involved with detective Shabor Dasgupta
in his investigation and for a single moment it won’t bore you. This is one
good crime thriller and you should not miss it.
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