Rituparno's long-in-the-cans controversy-marred Shob Choritro Kalponik produced by the biggest ever corporate in Bengali cinema- Reliance Big Pictures and released 28 August '09 has been received well by the audience in the first week. The distributor Piyali Films, the distribution arm of Priya Entertainments run by the well-known exhibitor-distributor Arijit Dutta has done an experimental release in a larger-than-average number of single-screen theatres besides the plexes and it looks like paid off.
Hope it ushers in some long over-due changes in Bangla Cinema Marketing!
ReplyDeleteIf only the film had been worth all the fuss....!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is an utterly shallow & self-indulgent piece, one of the weakest offerings from Rituparno Ghosh. When I went to see the film at a multiplex, I too was positively overwhelmed by the warm reception the film had received thanks to Bipasha's presence; it has been a huge draw for the non-Bengali viewers many of whom had turned up for the first time to see an un-subtitled Bangla film and they were glad that a sizable portion of the dialogues were actually in English!
But you can well imagine my embarrassment & disgust when I found them laughing hysterically and pooh-poohing the maker for such a trite melodrama, with some surreal psycho-babble thrown in, as they came out of the theater. It did not auger well for the well-being of meaningful Bangla cinema.
I like the film, it's completely different than Ritu da's other films. And I think it's not a film it's something different, I've no words to express my feelings. Really poetry survives!
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