The last few months had been examination time for me and had been too tiresome and I was literally getting irritates of not having seen a single movie in the theatre in recent times. So today afternoon when my cousin brother Aakash (incidentally one of the protagonists have got the same name in the movie) offered me a free vouch, I didn’t deny to drop into the matinnee show for the bengali release ‘Cross Connection’, considering the hullabaloo going on in bollywood.
I was a bit sure that it was going to give a satisfactory response and it didn’t dishearten me till the end. It was a package of comedy with emotins and tricks & twists of parallel cinema. Though it’s not a parallel cinema in the truest sense, but it’s far better then prototype family melodramas.
Two pairs of new age, resplendant guys and gals, one just getting into random strifes with each other, one writer and another dancer, and another Software professionals, making their ways ahead for brighter future, planning to go abroad. The first being Ritwick and Rimjhim, the secong was Abir and Payal. The story didn’t have much to disclose; once love birds Akash(Ritwick) and Imon(Rimjhim) couldn’t find themselves comfortable with each other after a certain time and started keeping distance. All of a sudden Vikram(Abir) plunges into Imon’s life through a Cross connection over the telephone and due to his subtle presence of mind gets intimate with her sooner. Similarly Piya(Payal) comes into Aakash’s life. They were all set to get married and get settled in their new life, that one fine morning the all decide to go to Mandarmani for refreshment. There takes place the climax, ‘made for each others’ meet ‘made for each others’, understands their fault, listens to their heart and gradually the story ends. Saswata did justice to his minimum role along with kamalika.
But what makes the movie attractive is the ‘old wine in new bottle’ therapy; the screenplay, use of light, use of language as and when required that too very commonplace and above all dress and costumes were the key items of the movie. Obviously Rimjhim and Payal both did justice to the skimpy attires given to them which are just unthinkable for a bengali movie. Altogether it was a good job done by directors Abhijit Guha and Sudeshna Roy. I would ask people to just go and watch the movie. It’s what is called ‘cool’ and ‘contemporary’.
There are six songs penned by Anjan Dutt, Anindya, Chandril, Sumit Samaddar and Srijit, all of which are composed by Neel Dutt.
Hype at the time of recession:
* Remember Bapi Sen, the brave police officer who saved a girl’s life taking life risk? Sudip does a Bapi Sen act in this movie using the same name.
* Vickram, an employee himself who is yet to join his office, offers a job to Piya in Toronto.
* Chhanda Dutt(Anjan Dutt’s wife) in a cameo acts as Akaash’s landlady.
* Both the directors getting in some role.
* Hermaphrodites getting some footage.
Cast: Ritwick Chakraborty, Abir Chatterjee,Rimjhim Mitra, Payal Sarkar, Saswata Chatterjee and Kamalika Director: Abhijit Guha and Sudeshna Roy
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Wow…Sounds interesting. Got to watch it!
hermaphrodites?? excuse me?
Amartya, i swear i don’t want to fight with you again. But i don’t think that’s a politically correct word to be using on a public viewing site.
But it was a good review.
Yes Tamali you must watch it, and don’t forget to take some of your cool friends with you, it would be of more masti
Thnx @Trina, but for the word Hermaphrodites, I din’t get a suitable replacement, may be eunuch or bisexual.. whatever..
Intersex is the word.
I think “transvestite” would be the correct word in this context…men who cross-dress, that is dress as women.
but as far as I understood, they not only meant the dresses… but more than that
Oh so what exactly did they mean? I mean, i haven’t watched the movie, i asked a friend who had, and thats the impression she gave me. sorry…but wut did they mean?
i mean not only in dress but in talks walks ways and in many of the scenes the social condition of the said group of people have been manifested, like they were talking among themselves repenting and all !!