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Right off the bat... this movie was an amazing tribute to legend Ritu Da. It embodies the tropes from classic Rituporno Ghosh's films, mainly Utsab that comes to mind (though on a smaller cast scale).

The film revolves around a situation that acts as a red herring to what happens in the end. The exposition of the film faces a few pitfalls but for most of its world building does a solid job. It maintains a good balance on what is being revealed to the audience and what is being hidden.

Coming to the technical aspects, In my opinion, the film found its cohesive footing in its second half. The first half film felt quite divided in the styles used for exposition of the characters of Titli and Megh. The scene of the emotional revelation felt by Titli is marred with unnecessary spoken exposition which can have been done in a subtler manner. This was contrasted by the very well acted out purely emotional exposition of Megh that happens simultaneously.

In the second half the way in which both the characters are depicted becomes more cohesive in an artistic and philosophical sense.

Coming to the cinematography, the hand held camera setting works for most of the movie but at times seems to act only as a nuisance and not allow the audience to focus on the major event of the scene.

The editing during the climax of the movie which included 6 camera cuts in under half minute felt to have cheapened the new emotional revelation felt by the characters and seemed like something one would see in a soap opera.

Now the lighting and color... this was handled amazingly well with the lighting changing with the emotions and the characters and how they felt. No complains here.

The place where I do have a complaint is the usage of the flashback scene during the conclusion of the movie seemed to just be there to work as a plot point. According to me, if it had been organically included into the flashbacks of the wedding scene before then it would have had a way higher emotional hit for the audience in the end.

Overall an amazing performance by Jeetu Kamal, Shubhosree, Kaushik Ganguly, Sohini Sengupta and of course Rudranil Ghosh. An amazing direction by Indradip Dasgupto too.

Over all I would give it a 7/10. The only this that is pulling me back from giving a 9 is the non-cohesive first half, haphazard camera editing in the climax and the seemingly forced up flashback in the end.

To end... Jekhane Acho, Bhalo Theko Ritu Da.