Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Review of The Bongs Again


Almost 10 years ago Anjan Dutta had made a film which was completely out of trend that time, a movie with no commercial element, a Bengali movie with almost 70% dialogues in English, a movie talking about the global Bengalis. At that time it did not get much success but definitely it grabbed attention from many. Then in last 10 years lots of things have changed in Bengali film industry now urban crowd have started taking interest in good quality Bangla movies and may be because of that Anjan Dutta is back with #TheBongsAgain, a sequel to #TheBongConnection.

#TheBongsAgain is a story of two girls Olypriya (Parno Mittra) and Sarah (Neha Panda). Both are looking for their roots in a different country, different culture. Olypriya goes to London from Kolkata, to search her father who had left her with her mother several years ago. Sarah comes down to Kolkata from abroad to search her real mother who had left her in an orphanage from where she was adopted later. During their search they came across with different aspect of relationships, Oli almost broke up with her long term boyfriend Anindo (Gaurav Chakraborty) on the other hand Sarah found a close friend in Jisu (Jisshu Sengupta) who helped her in her search. They also come across the real world of their respective parents whom they are looking for. Olipriya experienced the life, her father use to live, a bondage free life for which he left his family behind. A group of stranger bohemian guys lead by Jerry (Anjan Dutta) helped her to explore the lifestyle of her father. In Kolkata Sarah too saw the struggle of poor homeless people, like her mother, the way they have to survive every day. She experienced all these through the eyes of Nitai (Shubhra Saurav), a small time fraud who use to cheat foreigners to earn some money.
The story is promising but sadly the screenplay does not go well. After a point it looks lost, you won't understand where the story is going to, rather it looks like a bunch of video songs playing one after another showing the different lanes of Kolkata and beaches of Kent. There are several relationship but none of those has been given proper time to flourish as a result no one will be bothered to know the climax of the relationships. 

As a Director Anjan Dutta has tried to make a youthful film but he is just partially successful. He is good with casting and locations but he failed to find a proper screenplay to justify his talented cast and crew.

Acting wise both the girls are wonderful. Parno Mittra has played her part really well. In emotional scenes she is too good. Neha Panda is a young talented actress who was very much unutilized so far in bit roles but this movie has given her a full grown platform to showcase her talent and she has utilised that opportunity quite well. Anjan Dutta is good but looks like he is repeating himself in a character what we have seen him playing again and again. Jisshu Sengupta is honest and sincere with his performance but he has hardly anything to do here. Shubhra Saurav is excellent in a supporting role. Gaurav Chakraborty has provided good support.

The music has been composed by Neel Dutta and like the other Anjan Dutta movies music is one of the biggest highlight of the film. The songs are good and have been used quite well mostly in background. Cinematography by Indranil Mukherjee is extraordinary. The way the beaches and valleys of Kent have been shot that is a treat to our eyes.


Overall it is a film which looks good from outside but what is missing, is an engaging story. You can watch it only for the wonderful performances by the two leading ladies and for the melodious music by Neel Dutta.


Thursday, 12 January 2017

Bengali Movies to Watch out for in 2017

Year 2017 has just begun and we wish this year will produce more entertaining movies and will be bigger and better in terms of box office business.
To begin the year let's have a look about the Bengali movies to watch out for in 2017.


Movie - Posto
Director - Shiboprasad Mukherjee & Nandita Ray
Cast - Jisshu Sengupta, Mimi Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Lily Chakraborty
Why Recommended
·        Shiboprasad & Nandita this Director duo's name is enough to make us curious for this movie.
·        Jisshu Sengupta and Mimi Chakraborty are also an added attraction.

Movie - Amazon Abhijaan
Director -  Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Cast - Dev
Why Recommended
·         It will be the sequel to super hit film #ChanderPahar
·         It will release during the season of Durga Puja which is most profitable season for Bengali movies.

Movie - Meghnadbadh Rahasya
Director - Anik Dutta
Cast - Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Gargee Roychowdhury, Abir Chatterjee, Bikram Chatterjee, Sayani Ghosh
Why Recommended
·         #BhooterBhabishyat fame director Anik Dutta is making a movie after a long gap so we are hopeful that it will be an interesting subject which has bring back the man to director's chair once again.
·         The cast too is interesting having some really good actors.


Movie - Durga Sohay
Director - Arindam Sil
Cast - Sohini Sarkar, Tanushree, Anirban Bhattacharjee, Indrashish Roy, Sampurna Lahiri
Why Recommended
·         Director Arindam Sil has already proved he makes really nice movies so we can definitely be hopeful from his next directorial.
·         It will be a family drama with a wonderful ensemble cast 


Movie -  Bisorjon
Director - Kaushik Ganguly
Cast - Abir Chatterjee, Joya Ahsaan
Why Recommended
·         It has been directed by Kaushik Ganguly so we can expect a fresh and interesting story.
·         It will be a love story between a Indian guy and Bangladeshi girl played by the talented actors Abir Chatterjee and Joya Ahsaan

Movie - Next Kakababu Movie
Director - Srijit Mukherjee
Cast - Prosenjit Chatterjee
Why Recommended
·         It will be a Srijit Mukherjee film so we can definitely be hopeful with this.
·         Last time the Kakababu Movie #MisharRahasya was a big hit and we hope the next movie of this series will be of same calibre.

Movie -  Mukhomukhi
Director - Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Cast - Jisshu Sengupta , Payel Sarkar
Why Recommended
·         Nothing much has been known about the movie till now but we can expect a good sensible movie from director Kamaleshwar Mukherjee.
·         Jisshu Sengupta as the leading man is also enough grow our interest for this movie.


Movie - Dhumketu
Director - Kaushik Ganguly
Cast - Dev , Shubhoshree, Rudranil
Why Recommended
·         It will be really interesting to see the combination of commercial movie's hit pair Dev and Shubhoshree under the direction of Kaushik Ganguly.
·         After getting positive reviews in #Zulfiqar, we are more interested to see Dev doing some serious acting.

Movie - Arindam Sil's next movie based on Dhananjay case
Director - Arindam Sil
Cast - Anirban Bhattacharya
Why Recommended
·         The movie will be based on the much controversial real life incident of Dhananjay and Hetal Parekh. But the filmmakers have promised to tell the story with a never seen before angle which is enough reason to wait for its release.
·         Also we are hopeful with Arindam Sil as a Director.

Movie - Next Byomkesh movie
Director - Anjan Dutta
Cast - Jisshu Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee, Ushoshi
Why Recommended
·         Whenever Anjan Dutta has made a Byomkesh movie, he has never failed to impress the audiences, so it won't be wrong to expect yet another successful Byomkesh movie during this Puja.


Movie - Chaamp
Director - Raj Chakraborty
Cast - Dev, Rukmini Mitra, Chiranjeet
Why Recommended
·         It's true that commercial movies are not getting that good response but this movie has some features which can help it to be a real champion.
·         It will be a sports based film after a long time that too with a sport like Boxing which has hardly been featured in Bengali movies so far.
·         It will mark the debut of Deb's rumoured girl friend Rukmini that too opposite Dev


Movie - The Bongs Again
Director - Anjan Dutta
Cast - Jisshu Sengupta, Parno Mitra, Anjan Dutta, Neha Panda
Why Recommended
·         It will be a sequel to #TheBongConnection which was not a big hit but got positive feedback.
·         It had a wonderful ensemble cast full of talented actors.

Movie - 72 Ghanta
Director - Atanu Ghosh
Cast - Ritwick Chakraborty, Abir Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Indrani Haldar, Sudipta Chakraborty
Why Recommended
·         It will be mix of six different stories bind together.
·         Though this format of telling multiple stories has not been that successful so far but it gives us a chance to witness multiple interesting short stories in one film.
·         Also it has a very interesting cast with so many talented actors playing different roles in different stories.


Tuesday, 10 January 2017

West Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards Winners

West Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards Winners
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  • Best Film – Cinemawala
  • Best Film (Popular) - Praktan
  • Best Director - Kaushik Ganguly - Cinemawala
  • Best Actor In A Leading Role – Prosenjit Chatterjee – Khwato &                                                                                     Paran Bandopadhyay – Cinemawala
  • Most Popular Actor of The Year – Dev - Zulfiqar
  • Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female) - Rituparna Sengupta - Praktan

  • Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male) - Ritwick Chakraborty - Saheb Bibi Golaam
  • Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female) - Aparajita Addhya - Praktan
  • Best Actor In A Comic Role - Bishwanath Basu - Praktan
  • Best Actor In A Negative Role - Jisshu Sengupta – Zulfiqar

  • Most Promising Actor (Male) - Anirban Bhattacharya - Eagler Chokh
  • Most Promising Actor (Female) - Sohini Sarkar – Cinemawala
  • Most Promising Director - Pratim D Gupta - Saheb Bibi Golaam


Music Awards
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  • Best Music Composer – Anupam Roy & Anindya Chatterjee – Praktan
  • Best Lyrics – Anupam Roy - Tumi Jaake Bhalobaso - Praktan
  • Best Playback Singer (Male) – Nachiketa Chakraborty – Ek Purono Masjide - Zulfiqar
  • Best Playback Singer (Female) – Iman Chakraborty – Tumi Jaake Bhalobaso - Praktan


Technical Awards
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  • Best Screenplay – Kaushik Ganguly – Bastushaap & Arun Roy – Cholai
  • Best background Score – Bickram Ghosh – Eagler Chokh
  • Best Costume Designer – Sulagna & Ajopa Mukherjee – Saheb Bibi Golaam
  • Best Make Up Artiste – Somnath Kundu – Zulfiqar
  • Best Cinematographer - Rana Dasgupta - Sohra Bridge
  • Best Art Director- Nitish Roy - Prakton
  • Best Sound Designer- Anirban Sengupta - Cinemawala
  • Best Editor-Subhajit Singha - Cinemawala

Nominations for the 62nd Jio Filmfare Awards

Nominations for the 62nd Jio Filmfare Awards

















Best Film
Dangal
Kapoor & Sons
Neerja
Pink
Sultan
Udta Punjab

Best Director
Abhishek Chaubey – Udta Punjab
Ali Abbas Zafar – Sultan
Karan Johar – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Nitesh Tiwari – Dangal
Ram Madhvani – Neerja
Shakun Batra – Kapoor & Sons

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male)
Aamir Khan – Dangal
Amitabh Bachchan – Pink
Ranbir Kapoor – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Salman Khan – Sultan
Shah Rukh Khan – Fan
Shahid Kapoor – Udta Punjab
Sushant Singh Rajput – MS Dhoni: The Untold Story

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female)
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – Sarbjit
Alia Bhatt – Dear Zindagi
Alia Bhatt – Udta Punjab
Anushka Sharma – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Sonam Kapoor – Neerja
Vidya Balan – Kahaani 2

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male)
Diljit Dosanjh – Udta Punjab
Fawad Khan – Kapoor & Sons
Jim Sarbh – Neerja
Rajat Kapoor – Kapoor & Sons
Rajkummar Rao – Aligarh
Rishi Kapoor – Kapoor & Sons

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female)
Kareena Kapoor Khan – Udta Punjab
Kirti Kulhari – Pink
Ratna Pathak Shah – Kapoor And Sons
Richa Chadda – Sarbjit
Shabana Azmi – Neerja

Best Music Album
Amaal Mallik, Badshah, Arko, Tanishk Bagchi, Benny Dayal and Nucleya – Kapoor & Sons
Amit Trivedi – Udta Punjab
Meet Bros, Amaal Mallik, Ankit Tiwari & Manj Musik – Baaghi
Pritam – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy – Mirzya
Vishal-Shekhar – Sultan

Best Lyrics
Amitabh Bhattacharya – ‘Channa mereya’ (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
Gulzar – ‘Aave re hitchki’ (Mirzya)
Gulzar – ‘Mirzya’ (Mirzya)
Irshad Kamil – ‘Jag ghoomeya’ (Sultan)
Kausar Munir – ‘Love you zindagi’ (Dear Zindagi)
Late Shiv Kumar Batalvi – ‘Ikk kudi’ (Udta Punjab)

Best Playback Singer (Male)
Amit Mishra – ‘Bulleya’ (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
Arijit Singh – ‘Ae dil hai mushkil’ (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
Arijit Singh – ‘Channa mereya’ (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
Atif Aslam – ‘Tere sang yara’ (Rustom)
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – ‘Jag ghoomeya’ (Sultan)

Best Playback Singer (Female)
Kanika Kapoor – ‘Da da dasse’ (Udta Punjab)
Jonita Gandhi – ‘Break up song’ (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
Neeti Mohan – ‘Sau aasman’ (Baar Baar Dekho)
Neha Bhasin – ‘Jag ghoomeya’ (Sultan)
Palak Mucchal – ‘Kaun Tujhe’ (MS Dhoni: The Untold Story)
Qurat-ul-Ain Balouch – ‘Kari kari’ (Pink)

Friday, 6 January 2017

Movies to watch out for in 2017

Year 2017 has just begun and we wish this year will produce more entertaining movies and will be bigger and better in terms of box office business.
To begin the year let's have a look about the movies to watch out for in 2017.

Movie - Tubelight
Director - Kabir Khan
Cast - Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Zhu Zhu (Chinese Actress)
Why Recommended
  • The combination of Kabir Khan and Salman Khan has always been proved big success.
  • The movie will be the Eid release from Bhaijaan
  • The concept is very interesting; it is a love story between an Indian Man and Chinese girl during the time of Indo-China war.

Movie - Tiger Zinda Hai
Director - Ali Abbas Zafar
Cast - Salman Khan , Katrina Kaif
Why Recommended
  • It will be the sequel of hugely successful #EkThaTiger 
  • It will reunite the successful pair of Salman and Katrina
  • It will also reunite the combination of director Ali Abbas Zafar and Actor Salman Khan after their super successful film together #Sultan

Movie - Raees 
Director - Rahul Dholakia
Cast - Shahrukh Khan , Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Mahira Khan
Why Recommended
  • Shahrukh Khan is coming in a action thriller after a long time.
  • Also looking forward for some solid performance from Nawazuddin Siddiqui opposite Shahrukh Khan.

Movie - The Ring/Rehnuma (Name not yet confirmed)
Director - Imtiaz Ali
Cast - Shahrukh Khan , Anushka Sharma
Why Recommended
  • It is a love story with the successful romantic pair Shahrukh Khan and Anushka Sharma
  • Imtiaz Ali is master story teller when it comes about emotional love stories dealing with different layers of human emotions. 

Movie - Jolly LLB 2
Director - Subhash Kapoor
Cast - Akshay Kumar, Annu Kapoor, Huma Qureshi
Why Recommended
  • It is an Akshay Kumar movie
  • It is the sequel to very much entertaining film #JollyLLB and it has been made by the same director.
  • Also looking forward to some powerful performance from Annu Kapoor and Sourav Shukla in supporting cast.

Movie - Toilet Ek Prem Katha
Director - Shree Narayan Singh
Cast - Akshay Kumar , Bhumi Pedenekar
Why Recommended
  • The leading man Akshay Kumar himself is the biggest USP
  • The subject about a l0ve story revolving around toilet sounds interesting.
  • After a long wait we will get to see the lovely actress Bhumi Pedenekar who was last seen in #DumLagaKeHaisha 

Movie - PadMan
Director - R Balki
Cast - Not Yet Decided
Why Recommended
  • Akshay Kumar is backing it as a producer and his wife Twinkle has written the script
  • Director R Balki has entertained us most of the time with his unconventional subjects and this too is an unconventional story based on a real life person.

Movie - Jagga Jasoos
Director - Anurag Basu
Cast - Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif
Why Recommended
  • It has been directed by Anurag Basu.
  • We are very much hopeful to see Ranbir Kapoor as a 17 year old detective.
  • It will feature the successful pair of Ranbir and Katrina 

Movie - Padmavati
Director - Sanjay Leela Bhanshali
Cast - Ranvir Singh, Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor
Why Recommended
  • The successful combo of Director Sanjay Leela Bhanshali and actors Ranvir Singh and Deepika Padukone will be back together for third time after giving two back to back success.
  • It will be yet another passionate love story from Sanjay Leela Bhanshali with his lavish and later than life presentation

Movie - Rangoon
Director - Vishal Bhardwaj
Cast - Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Kangna Ranaut
Why Recommended
  • Vishal Bhardwaj is a big name himself to make it worth watching
  • The lead trio consist of three really powerful actors among them both Shahid and Saif have given their best with Vishal Bhardwaj and we hope they will once again impress us. 
  • Also it is likely that Kangna will mesmerize us with yet another rocking performance.

Movie - Simran
Director - Hansal Mehta
Cast - Kangna Ranaut
Why Recommended
  • The combination of a National Award winner film maker and National Award winner actress is really something to look out for

Movie - Badshaho
Director - Milan Lutharia
Cast - Ajay Devgan , Emraan Hashmi
Why Recommended
  • The director and the lead actors of Super hit film #OnceUponATimeInMumbai are coming together for one more time.

Movie - Golmaal Again
Director - Rohit Shetty
Cast - Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Parineeti Chopra
Why Recommended
  • This will be the fourth installment of the super successful franchise #Golmaal.
  • It is one franchise which has never failed to entertain us.

Movie - Kaabil
Director - Sanjay Gupta
Cast - Hrithik Roshan, Yami Gautam, Ronit Roy
Why Recommended
  • Though his last film was a flop but Hrithik Roshan still is a popular star
  • It will be an engaging thriller where Hrithik and Yami have played blind character,

Movie - Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Director - Shashank Khaitaan
Cast - Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt
Why Recommended
  • It's the sequel to super hit romantic comedy #HumptySharmaKiDulhania.
  • Once again we will get to see the lovely pairing of Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt.

Movie - Judwa 2
Director - David Dhawan
Cast - Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Taapsee Pannu
Why Recommended
  • It will be sequel to 90's popular comedy #Judwa
  • Varun Dhawan will surely rock in comic role under his father's direction.

Movie - Half Girlfriend
Director - Mohit Suri
Cast - Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor
Why Recommended
  • It is based on Chetan Bhagat's bestseller with the same name
  • Most of the time Mohit Suri gives successful movies with super hit music
  • It will be interesting to see Arjun and Shraddha romancing each other on screen for the first time.

Movie - Begum Jaan
Director - Srijit Mukherjee
Cast - Vidya Balan, Gauhar Khan, Pallavi Sarada
Why Recommended
  • It is remake of hugely appreciated Bengali film #Rajkahini
  • Director Srijit Mukherjee is making his Bollywood debut with this one , in Bengal he is already an established film maker.
  • It will be multi starer with very talented Vidya Balan in the lead role and we are hopeful to see yet another powerful performance from this lady.

Movie - Raabta
Director  -Dinesh Vijan
Cast - Sushant Singh Rajput , Kriti Shanon
Why Recommended
  • After the big success of MSDhoni , Sushant Singh Rajput has became the next big thing to watch out for.
  • It will feature the fresh pair of Sushant and Kriti who are said to be close friends in real life too.

Movie - Bareilly Ki Barfi
Director - Ashwini Iyer Tiwari
Cast - Ayushmaan Khurana , Rajkumar Rao, Kriti Shanon
Why Recommended
  • As a Director Ashwini Iyer Tiwary has already impressed us with her debut in #NilBatteySannata, now we are looking forward to yet another sweet and simple story from her.
  • The cast too is interesting.

Movie - Trapped
Director - Vikramaditya Motwane
Cast - Rajkumar Rao
Why Recommended
  • The film has already got rave reviews in different special screenings.
  • As a Director Vikramaditya Motwane has never disappointed us.
  • It will be great to watch Rajkumar Rao in yet another rocking performance in a challenging role.

Movie - Meri Pyaari Bindu
Director -  Akshay Roy
Cast - Ayushmaan Khurana, Parineeti Chopra
Why Recommended
  • After a gap more than two years we will get to see very talented Parineeti Chopra on screen
  • She will be joined by yet another wonderful actor Ayushmaan Khurana.

Movie - Naam Shabana
Director - Shivam Nair 
Cast - Taapsee Pannu
Why Recommended
  • After the huge success of #Pink, Taapsee will be seen in a leading role once again
  • Her cameo in #Baby had got huge acclaim and it will be a full fledged movie where she will play the same character of a lady intelligence officer
  • It will also have Akshay Kumar in a guest appearance.

Movie - Secret Superstar
Director - Advait Chandan
Cast - Zaira Wasim
Why Recommended
  • Aamir Khan is producing the movie so undoubtedly it will have a fabulous story
  • Aamir Khan will also appear in a guest appearance
  • Young actor Zaira Wasim who has already been popular after playing younger Geeta in Dangal will feature as the main protagonist here.


Movie - Ok Jaanu
Director - Shaad Ali
Cast - Aditya Roy Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor
Why Recommended
  • It is a remake of Mani Ratnam's superhit movie #OkKanmani
  • It has been directed by Shaad Ali who had earlier made super successful romantic film #Saathiya, that too was a remake of another Mani 
  • Ratnam film.
  • It will feature teh fresh pairing of Aditya Roy Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor