Where should i start from? Like many things are positive. And feluda has taken me to my childhood once again, where i would be out on a holiday. Normally i begin with discussing about the technical departments. Let this be no different. Cause they just excel like huge sixes.
The cinematography by Ramyadip Saha just goes on to mount the series to a whole different level with tactful application of exciting scenes, jumpcuts, or...most importantly, the whip pan shots which were heavenly. I won't be able to forget the heroic walk of feluda through the over bridge of, perhaps teesta. The second appreciation goes out to Sanglap Bhowmik for his outstanding editing. Especially the way the non linearity of the series is kept intact, yet diversified, yet quite engaging to a certain extent. The background score by Joy Sarkar, though felt like it was overused at certain points, turned out to be fruitful. The title track was a really beautiful one with surreal lyrics, but "taai ghawnaale awndhokaar" still hums in my ears somehow!
Coming to performances, Tota RC was much more flawless, lethal, easy going than before. He looked much much much more "shawrogawro" in the suits of PCM. And heroic walk, sharp dialogues, eye contacts, body language, physique, and ofcourse the accident scene (it was not), where feluda falls off the road against a push, that needed sheer fitness. With all these charismas, the man has already become the feluda of my dreams. Anirban Chakrabarti as Jatayu was so adorable that i felt at some points, "if he lived in real, i would have gone out on a vacation with him". Kalpan Mitra as Topshe aka Topesh Ranjan Mitra delivered a more matured performace throughout. In the supporting cast two people who mesmerized me apart from Subrat Dutta as Mahadev Verma were Mainak Banerjee as RB, and Suprabhat Das as Samiran Majumdar. Saheb Bhattacharya and Barun Chanda...donning the hats of the killer and the killed respectively, where the ones from whom my expectations were the highest, but sadly, to me, they did a quite decent job. Phalguni Chatterjee as Harinarayan Mukherjee was also a love to watch. Rahul Banerjee as Pulak Ghosal was simply an apt casting, loved his screen presence.
Niggles? There were a few handcounts of them. The starting of the series could have been just better; it's not like it's bad at all, but there remains scopes for improvements. Feluda's face reveal could have been done in a different manner i feel. And at a number of cases, the comedy was over-applied, which could have easily been cut down.
But finally, yes srijit mukherji has succeeded in creating sheer nostalgia with feluda which i write again, took me back, and many of us like me, to our childhood. A perfect time travel for two and a half hours and i advice, bangali can't miss this! And a last fanboy-ish wish, i still hope this was released at the theatres, it's way too cinematic to be just a webseries.
© Suchetan B.
The cinematography by Ramyadip Saha just goes on to mount the series to a whole different level with tactful application of exciting scenes, jumpcuts, or...most importantly, the whip pan shots which were heavenly. I won't be able to forget the heroic walk of feluda through the over bridge of, perhaps teesta. The second appreciation goes out to Sanglap Bhowmik for his outstanding editing. Especially the way the non linearity of the series is kept intact, yet diversified, yet quite engaging to a certain extent. The background score by Joy Sarkar, though felt like it was overused at certain points, turned out to be fruitful. The title track was a really beautiful one with surreal lyrics, but "taai ghawnaale awndhokaar" still hums in my ears somehow!
Coming to performances, Tota RC was much more flawless, lethal, easy going than before. He looked much much much more "shawrogawro" in the suits of PCM. And heroic walk, sharp dialogues, eye contacts, body language, physique, and ofcourse the accident scene (it was not), where feluda falls off the road against a push, that needed sheer fitness. With all these charismas, the man has already become the feluda of my dreams. Anirban Chakrabarti as Jatayu was so adorable that i felt at some points, "if he lived in real, i would have gone out on a vacation with him". Kalpan Mitra as Topshe aka Topesh Ranjan Mitra delivered a more matured performace throughout. In the supporting cast two people who mesmerized me apart from Subrat Dutta as Mahadev Verma were Mainak Banerjee as RB, and Suprabhat Das as Samiran Majumdar. Saheb Bhattacharya and Barun Chanda...donning the hats of the killer and the killed respectively, where the ones from whom my expectations were the highest, but sadly, to me, they did a quite decent job. Phalguni Chatterjee as Harinarayan Mukherjee was also a love to watch. Rahul Banerjee as Pulak Ghosal was simply an apt casting, loved his screen presence.
Niggles? There were a few handcounts of them. The starting of the series could have been just better; it's not like it's bad at all, but there remains scopes for improvements. Feluda's face reveal could have been done in a different manner i feel. And at a number of cases, the comedy was over-applied, which could have easily been cut down.
But finally, yes srijit mukherji has succeeded in creating sheer nostalgia with feluda which i write again, took me back, and many of us like me, to our childhood. A perfect time travel for two and a half hours and i advice, bangali can't miss this! And a last fanboy-ish wish, i still hope this was released at the theatres, it's way too cinematic to be just a webseries.
© Suchetan B.