Rudra Banerjee

Come on bengali filmmakers, you can do better!!! Seriously started watching with zero expectations since all of Srijit Mukherjee's recent films were disappointing. The last one I watched was Yeti Obhijaan and after that if I had the courage of watching this you must know how frustratingly bored I was. Anyway, coming to the series, I did not read the book but I can tell it is a great thriller but the filmmaker just to had to destroy it out of habit. Not because he wanted to, but plainly Srijit Mukherjee is a bad filmmaker, period. A few good films and then repeat doesn't make one even an average filmmaker let alone good. Kanti Shah had made better films. The casting was okayish. Rahul Bose, Anirban Bhattacharjee, Anjan Dutta and even a couple of the white actors did a good job surprisingly. Anirban Chakraborty's Eken babu would have made a better police officer character here than this buffoon. Such great injustice. A few other supporting cast members were good as well. But man o man the execution. I would give a 4 star to the series till the reveal, a perfect thriller missing in bengali visual media for a long time, except for the unnecessary songs in between (I still don't understand why some bengali filmmakers want to demonize the poor bard even after death). Then comes the reveal!!! You get a bit of Hannibal, the series, Hannibal's escape from captivity in Silence of the Lambs, the climax from Baishe Srabon in dark and some cheap theatrics with, as usual with Srijit Mukherjee films, no logic. A hasty end to a good start which went nowhere. With this kind of budget from a well-known, well-connected filmmaker, this is rather shameless at the least. It's probably better if he drives cab. That's a far more honest and dedicated profession! That being said, there were a few good cinematic moments in terms of cinematography, background score and production design, but those just get clouded by the sheer monstrosity of this worthless series. The title of the series plays no significance in the plot but does justice to the quintessential bengali bard. That place messes up your visual digestion. Thank devil, he didn't come to eat there.