Raktabeej Movie Review: An Involving Intelligent Anti-Terrorism Drama – Times Now

About Raktabeej

Raktabeej (Bengali, Taking part in In Theatres In Kolkata & Different Cities)

Finally, a Bangla movie executed on a stage the place each the intelligentsia and the lots can interact and have a satisfying time.

Raktabeej is a finely written (by Sarbari Ghosal) movie. Its characters converse to the viewers for a change, as a substitute of solely amongst themselves. On one stage, this can be a sturdy anti-terrorism police procedural with two high cops, Pankaj Sinha (Abir Chatterjee), and Sanjukta Mitra (Mimi Chakrabarty), assigned to forestall a deliberate terror assault on the President Of India (Victor Banerjee).

Sounds acquainted? In the event you dig deep into the newspapers, you’re going to get an similar state of affairs within the former President Pranab Mukherjee’s life. However maintain your horses. This isn’t a headline-induced docu-drama that co-directors Shiboprosad Mukherjee-Nandita Roy are aiming for. Diving into the headlines, the duo emerges with an engrossing mix of a household drama and an anti-terror edge-of-the-seater.

The household portion of the movie is the center and soul of the drama. The tender bond between the President Of India as he visits his native village in West Bengal for Durga Puja, and his sister Gowri (Anasuya Majumdar), is agreeable and value investing in. The connection is constructed with care and diligence, with the 2 veteran actors conferring grace, nostalgia, and dignity to the sibling bonding that goes again to their childhood.

It’s a fantastically scripted relationship, and each Victor Banerjee and Anasuya Majumdar are exceptionally heartwarming of their roles. The ties that bind these two siblings spill right into a terror risk, which is abundantly harnessed into an anti-terror crackdown that fortunately doesn’t have a lifetime of its personal.

In a Sridhar Raghavan-meets-Sooraj Barjatya merger of genres, the police procedural is easily woven into the household drama. Because the career-committed Inspector Normal, Abir Chatterjee (sporting a mustache that could be a character of its personal) will get to flex his versatility as soon as once more: wasn’t he the trustworthy supportive husband in Fatafat simply months in the past? Right here, fortunately, there is no such thing as a romantic hyperlink between Abir and his beautiful co-star Mimi Chakraborty. The very last thing we want is a few romantic songs to interrupt the narrative’s grip.

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I like the best way the gender roles are reversed between Abir and Mimi: she is trigger-happy and at all times able to resort to violence, whereas he’s extra cautious whereas interrogating suspects. There’s a wholesome banter between the 2. However nothing extra.

I additionally appreciated the hazy hyperlink between Pankaj and the President. A childhood reminiscence of the President’s go to to his college offers Pankaj the self-discipline to do the correct factor. Extra energy to such position fashions.

What I didn’t like was the totally redundant merchandise music near the movie’s climax a couple of chap known as Gobinda who doesn’t brush his enamel. Who the hell cares, particularly when there’s a lot happening within the plot?

Raktabeej opens with the President rejecting a mercy petition by a terrorist on dying row. As Victor Banerjee tells his sister (in not so many phrases), the standard of mercy isn’t strained. The identical goes for the standard of cinema with a message. You can also make it partaking and related with out pounding within the message. Raktabeej proves it.

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