Amarnath Ghosh

JUICY TAAAPSEE -SOUL MEDICINE FOR 55+ On a hot lonely night, on your bed , with pillows propped up, to a semi reclining position, and a peg of whiskey being slowly sipped for the next 2.5 hours of this pulpy suspense thriller, you will have an immersive experience watching Taapsee’s smouldering beauty and her great acting skills, that makes you believe that she is indeed playing herself; a confident, cooly sarcastic, sexually desirable multilayered persona, whose life mimics the Hindi Crime Fiction novels sold at Railway Stations. Her acting skills are so good that when she sits on the bed in her silk robe, clearly enticing her husband with a discreet show of her thighs and strategic cleavage; her smokey voice and aptly asymmetric lips adding magic to the scene , that gradually turns into a shouting match; any man in the world, whatever his age, even of a grandfatherly age , (she would bring back your youth and remind you of your college fantasies), would pine for her. When she appears in her red and yellow sarees, and even when the camera caresses her back in a blue saree when she is making tea, you have only one word , wow, this is the greatest cinema and acting without actually acting. This is fully a Taapsee film. Watch it and imagine her intoxicating presence. Live the movie. At least for 2.5 hours you would be holding her on your lap ,through an iPad or a laptop. Experience the most beautiful unconventional beauty ever to have lit up the screen.