Robibaar

Robibaar (On A Sunday, on Hoichoi) - Sayani (Jaya Ahsan) is a legal affairs manager of an MNC and is simultaneously working on publishing her own book. On a lazy Sunday morning, she heads to a coffee shop for breakfast where she has a chance meeting with Asimabha (Prasenjit Chatterjee), her beau from 15 years ago. Or is it?

What follows is a dribble between their past life and experiences and their present, through which we learn that Asimabha is a brilliant individual with devious motives. He has led a life of con, has none to go back to, law is hotly chasing him and he has paid money to a hitman to murder him as suicide isn't something that he has the courage to do. But somewhere in his heart he is repentant and thinks that he can redeem himself by rescuing a street urchin. Now Asimabha and Sayani can use each other for mutual benefit, perhaps.

If the writer-director Atanu Ghosh thought that this is content enough and will engage the viewers, he got it all wrong. The story, if you can call it that, refuses to take off. It whines and grates, unable to lift it's own weight and crawls forward like a sloth, testing our patience. You keep waiting expectantly for something dramatic to happen or a twist in the story, but alas there isn't any. With just two characters around it also becomes quite monotonous to listen to their inane humming. Actually, not much emotive skills are on display here as there isn't much demand for it. Of course there isn't much chemistry between them too as they separated 15 years ago - really?

I mean,why was this movie ever made? What was the rationale? Absolutely no story build-up, the characters seemed to show off too much, they acted like there was too much to reveal but everything can easily be anticipated even by a 10 year old, dialogues were useless, why use unnecessary english jargons where you can use a good vocabulary of bengali jargons? Seriously, I don't understand! Also, there was too much of a pause while delivering dialogues, i mean what the heck? The Zee bangla serials are much better! The ending was too idiotic! I would suggest not to not waste your precious time and money on this at all!

A romantic relationship film.The film has wonderful story line and the camera languidly follows the characters throughout the film. It's a wonderful movie in recent time.Their narrative is not unusual either.Though the film is character-driven, it is not filled with dialogues.

The storyline of this movie with two old partners expressed lot of emotions along with memories which lead to heal the moments of these two whose relations teared up many years ago.

When oversimplification has become the trend, the director here chooses not to spell it all out. Neither does he indulge in any kind of sentimentality at the meeting of the lovers fifteen years later; rather, he leaves the narrative open, and time and again breaks it to provide a new insight into the relationship.The tangent the film takes with these digressions threw me off till I realized the grander design of the director. Liked the deviation from routine. Quite a novel format for a Bangla film I presume. Wonder if it would find much takers among the soap addicted audience. But if someone tends to have some patience, he would be richly rewarded.