After a long , long long time comes a Feluda movie "Royal Bengal Rahashya" that gels really well with the FELUDA lovers! (me being a fanatic at that) Numerous Bangalees like me have grown up reading and talking about FELUDA stories and Ray movies of the same name and endless numbers of times - have been greatly disappointed somewhat by the recent releases- This time .. the ONLY word that seems to come to my mind is the word KELLA FOTEH !! To speak from the bottoms of my Heart: Anek din por akta bangla movie bhishon bhishon enjoy korlam. While it is needless / pointless to go over the Story PLOT repetitively- it is far more worthwhile to discuss and ponder over the issues that have amazed me in this one! Sabyasachi Chakrabarty a.k.a Prodosh C Mitter can, by now play FELUDA with remarkable élan and tremendous poise. He excels in his given format as the ever intelligent, sharp visionary who solves a riddle with verbal clues that leads to the discovery of a GUPTO DHON in the Singha Roy family left by their ancestor Aditya Narayan. But the character who left me spellbound otherwise was elder brother of the Singha Roy family.. played by none other than Paran Bandopadhayay! Believe it or not: I have watched the scenes including him a number of times, back & forth- He has played the "inconspicously mental case" brother DEBATOSH SINGHA Roy like no other can! and our Beloved FELUDA scores a 10/10 who doesn't even take a blink of an eye to read through the 'so-called insignificant banters' of the elder brother. So in my opinion- FELUDA in this flick is duly supported by an ensemble able cast. Bibhu Bhattacharyya as JATAYU had always (truth be spoken) irritated the hell out of me by going over the top.. but his contribution is heart felt and overwhelming this time- What an irony!! Bibhu Bhattacharyya will never play JATAYU again! To sum up.. I have been an avid avid FELUDA LOVER most of the time.. and here comes a movie after a long time- that I have loved watching so much. Sabyasachi was an able successor as FELUDA after Soumitro Chatterjee but as he is growing old now (very prominent in the body physicality now)- The question that remains obvious- WHO will do justice to the legendary fictional character Prodosh C Mitter again?
Review of Royal Bengal Rahasya
