Saturday, January 1, 2011

Gorosthan e Sabhdhan

One city, two families, one diary, few letters and a perigal repeater. Somehow like most from our generation Feluda was an integral part of my growing years. I still remember how I wished to have the entire work of Feluda in my house and when I could buy my own books I bought that. Still remember it was the first time the Kolkata Book Fair was shifter from Maidan and the only year perhapse it was organized in the Saltlake Stadium enclosure. It was a office day and me and Ananya went out from office took a cab and went in. I went to only one shop a bought the complete collections of Feluda and Prof Shanku, two of the immortal creations of Satyajit Ray.
All the preface is just to emphasis on the habit that anything related to Feluda is a must for me. I may wait for the review or comments from friends before I go to watch any other movie but for Feluda this process doesn't exist.
Coming back to this particular installment the speciality of this one is I think this is the first one of Feluda movies completely set in Kolkata. So we got to see a lot of the city in this one. Also I'm sure people will now start to flock the South Park Street cemetery as that is the crime location for this story. The movie was good apart from a few things which I don't like. First somehow
Satyajit Ray turned the two movies into two classics which people still love to see. But somehow Sandip Ray's Feluda movies are regular crime thrillers with Feluda's story. The next thing is yes Sabyasachi is getting older. Although he's still the best actor for the role but the age factor is working against him.

Overall a nice movie.