Review of Double Feluda

Sandip Ray's #DoubleFeluda is different from any other regular Feluda movies and there is a particular reason. It is actually a celebration of completion of long fifty years of Feluda. That is why it is a film where the word Feluda has been used in the title itself and also for the fans it has not one rather two stories in two halves. These two stories are "Samaddarer Chabi" and "Golakdhaam Rahasya".

Apart from these two stories there are some additional features for the fans like the opening credit showing the original textbook snapshots from different popular Feluda stories which will bring back all the memories of reading the books. The end credit is a journey through the memories of Feluda movies where the cast and crew members shares there experience working with Satyajit Ray on Feluda movies.

Coming back to the movie both the stories are from the beginning stage of Feluda stories where there was no presence of Jatayu. Diehard fans will surely miss this inseparable character of Feluda stories.

For those who have not read the stories, “Samaddarer Chabi” is a story of Radharaman

Samaddar, a musical instrument collector who dies out of heart disease and while dying he lefts a clue about where he has kept al his savings, to his nephew Manimohan Samaddar (Bratya Basu). Manimohan hires Feluda to solve the mystery from the parting words of his uncle. “Golakdham Rahasya” is a story about a scientist Nihar Ranjan Dutta (Dhritiman Chatterjee) who was doing a research in US but his path breaking research stopped when he met with an accident and lost his eyes. After this accident he returns to India and starts living with his family. One day someone stoles his unfinished research work papers, that brings Feluda in the picture to solve this crime. The case gets more complicated when one of the two tenants of the house got killed.    

Sandip Ray has a unique style of film making where he keeps his storytelling very simple. He transforms Feluda stories to contemporary times without doing much changes to the original story as a result the look and feel remains the same as of the time period of the original text. Even now Feluda believes more on Sidhu Jyatha rather than Google. These things help to give the old age charm of the original stories.

Sabyasachi Chakraborty has played the character of Feluda on screen for the maximum time and he has succeeded to match our expectations every time. There is no doubt so far he is

the best suited Feluda on screen. When he confirmed to step into the shoes of Feluda once again after giving the opportunity to Abir Chatterjee for one movie, there were many doubts to many people, like Sabyasachi Chakraborty is growing old and he is looking aged. But on a surprising note with perfect make up and a better body language Sabyasachi has managed to overcome those shortcomings.As Topshe, Saheb Bhattacharya has nothing much to do and he is just okay.

Among the supporting cast everyone has done full justification with their characters. Special mention should be given for Saswata Chatterjee,Paran Bandopadhyay and Dhritiman Chatterjee. They have very less screen time but they have managed to leave impression wonderfully.

Finally it can be said, in the movie #DoubleFelua, every possible signature style of Feluda movies are present. Feluda is a nostalgic emotion to most of us and for those will be a better idea than watching the movie, to celebrate glorious fifty years of this emotional journey. Please note do not miss the opening and end credits of the films. These two sections are dedicated to all the Feluda fans there.