Birendra Nath Ruidas

This kind of movies restore my faith towards Bengali films. Porikkha is the only story from the four stories that I'd read before watching this movie. And I must say how well executed the 4th story is. Usually directors or filmmakers make changes in the original story which I'm sure the bibliophiles like me do not appreciate. But here we see that the filmmaker has respected the writer keeping the story as it is. Needless to say the remaining three parts are also great. Great acting by each and everyone and a treat for family members of all ages. This movie deserves 8 point rating. Just awshadharon.

A very heartwarming movie. Sohini Sarkar stole the show. Great acting on her part. But funny enough we kinda saw the same in the movie, Monchora (a novel written by Sharadindu Bandopadhyay that has been made into a film). However, in this movie the mother-daughter bond is developed whereas in Monchora it was a romantic relationship that was showcased. Anyways, Sohini Sarkar's cadence, acting and the innocent face makes you feel every bits of emotions. In spite all these the movie seems a bit pretentious while showing the mother-daughter bond. Screenplay should have been a bit better. The characters should have given a bit more time for the audience to relate to their circumstantial dialogues. I also didn't like the western touch that was given in Durga Puja. This is when you compare this movie with Monchora (if you haven't read the novel, you're missing out), where the female lead wore saree all the time just like it was written in the novel showing the true culture and rituals of a bengali household. And here we see girls and boys performing rock and girls wearing western dresses even in Durga Puja. Regardless, this movie is overall good and a one time watch.

I'm disappointed. I have found that for MCU it has become always about the next thing and they aren't focusing on the current project. I believe it was all a clever plan to leak the involvement of Andrew and Tobey and NOT admitting it to the media just to get the movie hyped. And boy, did they get successful ? The reason I said this is because, even they knew that putting three Spider-Man won't be enough. Which is why they took help of this clever marketing hack. Which certainly worked. Now getting to the exact part that I found disappointing. WHERE WAS THE ACTION ?? Really, where were the action sequences ? If you think about it you will know there were so many scenes where we cheered and whistled in every Spider-Man solo movie. Like, in Sam Raimi's: The scene with the subway (I would have mentioned more scenes like that but I was a kid when I saw those movies and do not remember much). In Andrew Garfield's: Where he put on the mask again in the sequel, where he saved the school kids in a bus, when he saved people from Electro. In Tom Holland's: when he held the ship in Homecoming, when he fought those drones just by his spidey sense, duh ! All those scenes were awesome and most of us had goosebumps watching them. And what do we have here in No Way Home ? Three Spider-Men just swinging around ? Really ? There was so much more that three of the Spider-Men could do together. But let alone three Peters, even one Peter didn't have any of such scene. MCU is becoming over confident into their future endeavours. So much so that they seem to be in a rush. Like it's always about the next thing. If they keep going like this, soon people will reject the MCU movies.

I've always been a fan of classic horror movies. This is the only genre in which I don't like variations. I love it when it consists of exorcism, an evil spirit, revelation of the background story of the evil and finally ending the whole phenomena. All these can be seen in the devil made me do it. I won't say that the movie is extremely scary. But the fact that it is being told to you that this has been taken from a true story adds fuel to your fear. Which makes the movie scary as hell. My favourite shot of the movie is when Lorraine Warren is walking into the woods with Ed and the policeman. Where she is shown in the middle whereas Ed and the police guy are following her. And my favourite scene is when Lorraine shouts at the witch saying "by the blood of Calvary I command it" and then the dark stuff on the altar fades away.

Do not let all these 5 or 4 star ratings fool you. If you're a movie buff (obviously I'm referring to someone who watches a lot movies regardless of language and genre) you're not gonna like it. It's a cliche of a rebirth love story with a little tweaks and turns. And a sasta copy of Joaquin Phoenix's Joker. Why ? Cuz the protagonist didn't kill the new Nata. Left the audience to decide whether it all was Raktim's imagination or Amol actually took rebirth as Raktim. Okay, it seems similar to a movie 🤔. Oh yes, Joker. The thing is that the way makers presented this whether-this-is-imagination-or-truth thing kinda made it look like a wannabe. A wannabe Joker. The movie is also stretched too much. At times it just seems unnecessary or annoying. Seriously I've no idea how this movie got 7 point something rating on IMDB. The people rating it 5 star probably do not watch different movies. I'm not talking about foreign films. A lot of better bengali movies are there.