Delivers Bucketful Of Nostalgia Despite Meandering Plot – FilmyVoice
Full of an ensemble forged of over 30 actors and set towards the backdrop of Kolkata’s famed Durga Puja, Author-Director-Producer Soumyajit Majumdar’s ‘Homecoming’ is a “buddy-film” with a hackneyed theme.
The narrative follows a bunch of buddies who have been part of a big theatre group known as Amra. The chums reunite- for the primary time after their final efficiency seven years in the past. They congregate within the massive bungalow, which was as soon as their previous rehearsal area. Through the reunion, the buddies converse about their previous, current, and future, and over the interval as soon as once more bond. Thus the movie ends on a be aware that states- “For the report, we by no means broke up, we have been on a vacation”.
The primary half of the movie is a montage of fragmented scenes. Every scene within the montage consists of items of dialog, some pretentious whereas others are merely irrelevant. However step by step, because the razor-thin plot meanders with no particular objective, we realise, as talked about by one of many characters within the movie, “It’s like seeing phantasm inside actuality”.
The screenplay is a giant let-down. The absurdity of the narration the place every scene is sweet in silos however abrupt and disconnected with the following scene throws the viewer off guard, and thus it’s a ache to look at the movie. Including to this, the movie is speak heavy, the place the characters speak on numerous topics with none sequence or technique to their insanity. Thus, what you get is chaos and cacophony.
It’s solely through the songs that the noise graph is underneath management. Additionally, the narrative stabilises at half-point when Sri (Sayani Gupta), as soon as a lead actor of Amra and now a disillusioned poster woman of ‘alternate’ Bangla Cinema, and Imroze aka #canteen_rockstar, as soon as a singer and music director at Amra, and now an equally disillusioned singer within the Hindi movie circuit, awkwardly stumble upon one another of their secret place of rendezvous. It’s their catharsis that makes them bond as soon as once more. Thereafter, the narrative streamlines to a significant however lacklustre coherent finish.
On the performing entrance, every actor delivers a sturdy efficiency, sincerely.
Visually, whereas the movie is generally shot solely in a single location, it’s a reduction and a delight once we get to see younger Abhishek Ghatak, aka Godot, biking in Kolkata. The frames are magnificent.
Total, the movie will attraction to anybody who has hung out in Kolkata. The dialogues in addition to the lyrics of the three songs will ring residence nostalgia and can certainly tug at their heartstrings.
Movie: ‘Homecoming’ (Streaming on SonyLiv);
Period: 90 minutes
Director: Soumyajit Majumdar
Forged: Sayani Gupta, Tushar Pandey, Plabita Borthakur, Hussain Dalal, Soham Majumdar, Tuhina Das, Sayan Ghosh, Pujarni Ghosh, Sreya Bhattacharya, Angana Roy, Priyanka Mondal, Subhra Sourav Das, Apratim Chatterjee, Anirjit Hoare, Madhurima Ghosh, Ayan Bhattacharjee
-By Troy Ribeiro
