Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole

Oh I am so happy and nostalgic. I found myself whistling inside the cinema hall after decades, at the entry of Deepak Chatterjee! I forgot I turned 50 a few months ago.

This movie could have been a tad shorter, shorn off some excess.. but that said, it is an ode to first Universe of bengali pulp literature, the page turners of my and my elder bro's childhood.....the collective magical times of that generation.

Smartly crafted, intelligently scripted, passionately acted, luridly costumed....it shamelessly shuts up logic and unleashes a tale of such fun and over-the-top ness.. that we are reminded that it takes a genius to play the fool.

There are touches of nonlinear time flows, magic realism, subtle digs and sarcasms...references to cult movies...but these are plastic words and let me stop here.. simply go and dive into it.

I am dead watching this and my spirit is giving this warning not to watch. Total failure of a experiment. Some people can fake it that they like it to show how creative their mind is but trust me it's a total time waste and most disturbing is they know that they are not making any sense and expect the people to watch shamelessly and the wrongfully depicted scene to be accepted by audience. The only thing I liked in the movie is Shruti Das's presence. Everytime she comes in screen it's engaging. She can easily be said the epitome of hotness in Bengali movie nowadays. I want to watch more of her in coming cinemas.

I was waiting for this movie for a long time. But Watching it was a dejecting feeling. The presence of the writer Swapankumar, enacted by Paran Banerjee, has made it more monotonous. Banerjee's monologue is too dull. The occasional reference and deliberate comparison of Dipak Chatterjee with the immortal character, particularly Feluda, is utterly unacceptable. The theme and content do not have a head or tail. No doubt, the detective stories of Swapankumar are entertaining. But the perspective of this generation is different. The film has done more injustice to Swapankumar. The initiation of Swapankumar detective stories is a super flop. It is utterly worthless content.

This movie is so bad that swapna Kumar the writer may come and haunt the director. I was pretty much exited for this one because of the story also a bit for abir. For long I was thinking why no one is making any movie on Shri swapan Kumar's stories.

Now if I come to the movies it's pretty much pathetic. I was trying so hard to complete it but was unable to do so. Some random stuff was happing, extremely dramatic which was not needed, pretty much boring and so on.

From the outset, the film struggles to find its footing, careening wildly between subplots without ever fully committing to any one narrative thread. Characters are introduced and promptly forgotten, their backstories hastily sketched out in clumsy exposition dumps that do little to endear them to the audience. The result is a disjointed jumble of half-baked ideas that never coalesce into a cohesive whole.

My Review of #ShriSwapankumarerBadamiHyenarKobole ::: Direction by #DebaloyBhattacharya is fairly good. His storytelling narrative is not intriguing, but his shot-taking style is very fresh. Dialogues are superbly penned. Many scenes and shots resemble his previous films, specially #DraculaSir.

Cinematography by #RamyadeepSaha is of first order. Marvellous would be an understatement. Editing by #SanglapBhowmick is very slow paced, just like the screenplay. So, the audience tends to get bored very soon. Music by #AmitChatterjee is fresh to the ear, but not hummable enough. But the song 'Mushroom' is well-composed. Production company #HoichoiStudios ( #Hoichoi ) & distribution by #ShreeVenkateshFilms ( #SVF ) has made this venture saleable, but its Box Office glorious run is debatable.

As per as the performances are concerned, #AbirChatterjee as Dipak Chatterjee & #ParanBandopadhyay as Sri Swapankumar has tried their best to backup the poor screenplay with their screen presence by acting well.

#ShrutiDas as Tashi is not at all impressive and looked very dull and stiff in her dialogues delivery. #GoutamHalder as usual acted as a carbon copy in his signature style. #PratikDutta as Ratanlal is a new and fresh discovery and someone to watch out for. #LoknathDey is good. Last but definitely not the least, theatre & TV actress #SaoliBandopadhyay looked very confident and tried her best as much she can, in her few scenes. But her atrocious wig looked very poor on her. But overall, if you leave your brain, aptitude and logic at your home, and come to enjoy a #PulpFiction film based on a graphic novel chain of the similar genre, then you would surely gonna enjoy the film. One-Time watch or a Timepass 👍🏻