Who doesn't like a thrilling chill? The answer is obvious. It's simply all irrespective of identify affiliations or age. But all look good on the Silver Screen or rather on Mobile Screen; catharsis indeed. After all, both revolution and evolution in the Social Media have not only broken traditional perspectives but introduced more powerful and conclusive tools which have become inseparable parts of live. This is nothing new. But important point is use of Social media in different sectors more importantly entertainment enterprise. Naturally, it includes films which has yet been the most rejoiced means of entertainment. The new age technology has impacted film making. It is not exaggerating that technology has helped Movie enterprise to survive. But this has failed to restrict the decline of playback singing; an august arena of film making in India. After all, who can forget the icons like Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Rafi, Asha Bhosale and others? But this is really unfortunate that today's singers have miserably failed to preserve the unique gharana of Indian Film Music.
But in this age if a Movie or Web Series makes effort to make song relevant in a content dealing with crime, the Movie maker deserves credit. The Second Series of Bengali Crime Thriller Nikhoj-2 has made that effort. However, is it right to preceive Web Series dealing with crime and intrigues because of inclusion of a song? Certainly not. Songs are and should be second fiddle. The Web Series Nikhoj 2 has not compromised with anything related to narrate a crime thriller. The Series has every element needed to present crime and sustainement of suspense to entertain the viewers. But the most important aspect is: Nikhoj 2 narrates tender emotion and it deals with humanistic aspects as priorities. This is a tale of a helpless mother, degraded reputation of a public figure, loss of values, fragile family bonding, solitary, victim of destiny and such others. This is may be one reason the Web Series doesn't depict death after death. The murder scenes are also metaphorical and this is where the song really matters- Nikhoj Tui written, composed and performormed beautifully by Rupam Islam. The tactical use of the song in the Web Series makes the narrative more impacting. Naturally, apart from Tota Roy Chowdhury, Swastika Mukherjee, Pratik Dutta, Koneeka Banerjee, Saoli Chatterjee, Rajatava Dutta and others, Rupam Islam's music plays an important role here. This is true that Rajatava Dutta is not getting roles as per his potential these days. Reason may be Rajatava has become a bit stereotypical with passing time. But the important point is proper mingling of a Crime Thriller and music making Nikhoj 2 more appealing. The song in the Crime Thriller proves one thing; there is space for payback singing even today. However the need is to compose and sing as the narrative needs. This message is larger for the today's Film Music Fraternity.
