The protagonist of the story is a dhoti-wearing, middle-class, detective named Byomkesh Bakshi. The last I can recall the name is from the cerebral Rajit-Kapoor-starring small-budget TV series. But it's unfair that it either get compared to the Guy Ritchie's high-octane Hollywood Sherlock Holmes films or to the original Bengali version created by Sharadindu Bandhopadhyay in 1940s. In this re-imagined film version (set in 1943 Calcutta), there is just too much happening in a hurry but the story moves forward very slowly. Which is frustrating as director Dibakar Banerjee contemporary masterful take of this famous fictional detective is brilliant but is not satisfying. It lacks the thrill of a murder mystery. I wish Sushant Singh Rajput was better in carrying this kind of film. In fact, Anand Tiwari was better than him and also Meiyang Chang, the ‘Indian Idol’ fame, was surprising good. The final highly stylistic gore was like a stand alone pay-off piece. The cinematography (Nikos Andritsakis), production design and background score ("mixes rap, thrash metal, gypsy ballads and thumping swing") were a cinematic pleasure. Interesting Fact: On 20th December, 1943, Japan had dropped an aerial bomb attack on Calcutta right on The Great Eastern Hotel. "Khosla Ka Ghosla! was a middle-of-the-road comedy; Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, an acid dissection of social climbing in class-conscious Delhi; Love, Sex Aur Dhokha, a defiantly un-pretty film about a society that is increasingly under surveillance; Shanghai, a political thriller in the vein of Z."
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It's a sublime and charming British film, set in the bohemian fantasia of Glasgow's West End. This film is about youth and careless lust, kind of like a desexed version of Jules and Jim, written with a radical alternative attitude about modern pop music. Its an authentic look about finding your place, and also about the trials and tribulations of young love. It's very quirky and bittersweet. It's all very loose, its structure almost free form and secondary to its music, which takes center stage. There are many music video style interludes and different wild Super 8mm montages that remind you of a simpler time whether its daydreaming over album cover art or creating memories with your friends. It has a magical air, slightly rough, lived-in hipster quality. "Stuart Murdoch, the lead singer and songwriter of Scottish indie-pop band Belle & Sebastian, also wrote the film's supremely melodic score as a stand-alone pop opera and nurtured it first as an album and then as a film project for a decade before a Kickstarter campaign, which inspired donors in 51 countries, helped make it a reality." "The central figure is Eve (Emily Browning), an Australian frustrated songwriter far from home, hospitalized for depression and an eating disorder. Slipping out one night, she catches the eye of Anton (Pierre Boulanger), a sexy Swiss-German rocker performing at a local club. But it’s James (Olly Alexander), the sensitive bespectacled English guitarist and singer, who ends up taking care of her. She keeps counting on narcissistic Anton to pass on her song demo to a pair of radio hosts known for launching new talent. In the meantime, Eve tags along to meet James’ rich music student, Cassie (Hannah Murray), another transplanted Brit, who completes the trio and forms a band one summer." Each of them are at their own crossroads. |
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