Shot in Purulia - where he keeps going back to film new subjects, new stories - arthouse giant Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s film from 2016 is, above everything else, about the splendour of the landscape: the rolling moors, the sprawling trees. As much an outdoor film as it is indoor, Sumon Mukhopadhyay’s underrated work recalls Ray’s hill station movie Kanchenjunga in its understated, languid, fog-shrouded atmosphere. Sexual tension, insecurity and friendship underline the weird dynamics between Moloy ( Bratya Basu), his wife Tuki ( Swastika Mukherjee) and his childhood friend, Indrajit (Ritwick Chakraborty): a guest for a few days at their home in Darjeeling. Netflixīoasting of a rap-heavy soundtrack and grimy black and white cinematography, Q’s lo-fi indie sensation is meant to provoke and shock and take you to places you don’t want to go. With their opposite acting styles and credentials, Prosenjit Chatterjee, the movie star who left theatre for greener pastures, and Ritwick Chakraborty, the one who stayed back, lock horns to generate solid drama in Kaushik Ganguly’s tale of two brothers (which unfolds over the course of the week following their father’s death in their ancestral home).
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