Deserves a one-time watch Cast: Saswata Chatterjee, Aparajita Adhya, Sohag Sen, Kharaj Mukherjee, Konineeca Banerjee, Devdutt Ghosh Rati...
Deserves a one-time watch
Cast: Saswata Chatterjee, Aparajita Adhya,
Sohag Sen, Kharaj Mukherjee, Konineeca Banerjee, Devdutt Ghosh
Rating: 3*
Director Manasi Sinha’s Eta Amader Golpo strikes the right chord with the audience with the social message that love can happen at any age and the romance of an elderly couple cannot be overlooked. If today’s generation believes in live-in relationships, then why can’t society accept that an elderly bachelor and a widowed grandmother can fall in love and tie the knot? Sinha has shown this through the eyes of today’s Gen Z. Another plus in the film is the performances of the two senior actors - Saswata Chatterjee and Aparajita Adhya with the latter scoring heavily with her low-key performance. She compliments Saswata’s Punjabi humorous acting.
In the laughing club, an elderly gentleman Sharmaji
(Saswata) who is a bachelor falls for an elderly Steetama Basu (Aparajita) who is
also a grandmother. After a lot of wooing and endless cups of morning tea at Nityada’s
(Kharaj Mukherjee in a small but important role) tea stall, the lady
reciprocates and the couple decides to get married. Their decision is welcomed
openly by her granddaughter Joyee (Pooja Karmakar) and Sharmaji’s younger
nephew Vicky (Arya Dasgupta) who is also a friend of Joyee. But not everything
is a bed of roses!
Sohag Sen as Sharmaji’s elder sister, Konineeca Banerjee as his sister-in-law Simran, Debdut Ghosh as Steetama Basu’s son, and Tareen Jahan as her daughter-in-law are good in their respective characters. The one problem apart from the ordinary camera work is that all Bengali actors are playing Punjabi characters with below-par nuances and pronunciations. The director could have easily gone for Hindi-speaking actors.
A well-intended film that deserves a
watch.
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