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Pariah Volume 1: Every Street Dog Has a Name (2024)
A much needed fresh violent action thriller with a truly emotional storyline
When it comes to a real mass entertainer with a gripping storyline that hooks audience till the end , Bengali movies somehow fall short. Back to back copy paste of South Indian movies with more or less same cliche plot almost destroyed the main stream cinema. As an alternative, detective franchise, treasure hunt and family/ relationship drama came in, and was able to pull a certain section of the audience to theater. But again, repeatation couldn't be avoided and those movies too , started loosing audience slowly. In such a scenario Pariah is a much needed movie that had to be done here.
It's a story of a man with a mysterious past who works in a factory and lives a quiet life somewhere in Kolkata. Very soon he will go to any length to destroy inhumane brutality on street dogs after a violent incident happened one night.
The treatment is completely new in Bengali cinema, given the movies we have been watching decades after decades. It's dark , scary and violent. The degree of violence is extremely high. For a faint hearted audience it might be difficult to watch some of the scene but for most of the fans of John Wick franchise, Kill Bill ( vol 1&2) , The Raid and it's sequel and other South Korean raw action films , this movie is a treat to watch. This movie is something we have been waiting for a long time, a long long time and finally we got it in 2024. What a vission from director Tathagata Mukherjee !!
Storyline draws empathy for the voiceless and a real dog lover can relate with every single moment more precisely. Screenplay is almost perfect, gripping and hold your attention till the end. Some scenes could have been much better but that's not a big issue, nothing is absolutely perfect in this world.
Vikram Chatterjee has delivered his career best performance so does Soumya Mukherjee the lead antagonist. The tussle between the two will leave you speechless. Vikram shines brilliantly while portraying his grudge , loneliness and breathes fire in action sequences and we must say that our next real action hero has arrived. And Soumya, what a performance!! I don't remember the last time I got really scared watching a villain in a Bengali film. Sreelekha Mitra , Angana Roy and especially Ambarish Bhattacharya have also done a fine job.
Action sequences are terrific. It's raw and brutal. You see blood all over. It's a blood bath and yes it's not something copied from a South film. Action sequences will haunt you for ever. It's not taking place in a foreign location with many stylish cars, guns and gadgets but rather in a grim and scary meat butchering shop with chopper and electric saw. Could you remember ,you have ever seen anything like this in a Bengali movie ?
Background score, cinematography and other technical aspects also heightened the tension of thie film. The bgm that comes at every scene where Vikram thrashes the bad guys will give you real high.
Pariah is a movie you should not miss if you are a fan of brutal action movies. Hope this will be a trend setter for how mass movie should be made here. Highly recommended!!
N. B. This movie has given homage to John Wick perfectly. It's not a copy paste of neither John Wick nor Lakadbagdha. Simply ignore those who are spreading this sort of negativity and watch it in theater. It's worth every penny .
Kalpurush (2005)
A soothing ,emotionally -riched and lifetime experience.
Let me start this review by saying it's my personal opinion and you may or may not like this movie, that's up to you.
Kalpurush released in 2008 in India and I was just 14 years old then and it was a beautiful ,very pleasant and nostalgic period.Now, in 2020,I am 26 and going through a life full of ups and downs , challenges,hardles and then a bit of success and then again there is hardle and it
goes on.In between all of this I watched Kalpurush and blown away.This is my first Buddhadeb Dasgupta experience.
It's a father -son relationship drama with so many shades.We all have so many dreams and sometimes they sound funny but we still live in them because we love to have a dream ,we love to live,yes sometimes we just love to live.
In a disturbing time we are living in right now and to make it even worse we are surrounded by pessimistic people; this movie is like oxygen.
Each and every actor ,Be it under -utiliesd great Mithun Chakraborty or Rahul Bose or now retired Samera Reddy have done an extraordinary job but Chakraborty deserves a standing ovation among them.In minor but important roles Laboni Sarkar and Bidipta Chakraborty are fantastic.
The movie runs through a non -linear antiplot structure with a number of metaphors that blurs the boundary between realism and fantasy .
Cinematography by Sudeep Chatterjee captures the mood brilliantly whereas Raviranjan Moitra's editing makes the non linear structure much more impactful and not to mention background score by Biswadeb Dasgupta .The flute music took me to my childhood days.
Now , would you watch it ? If you are a Buddhadeb Dasgupta fan then you might have watched it so far otherwise it depends on your taste .If just typical masala entertainers are your cup of tea then there is 99% chances of getting bored but if you like to carry a movie with you for long after having watched , if you like slow -burners and feel the essence for so many years then never miss it.