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Madras Cafe (2013)
Lacks conviction
The story had subtlety and poise, yet lost the grip thanks to very lack lustre construct. Film neither grew on macro issues nor did it excel in details.
MOST irritating part was the so called "passionate" journalist, her character development was so inept, it often felt like an audition of a substandard mohalla thetre.
John Abraham looked the part, but never acted the part.
Siddharth Bose's character was neither involved, nor aloof. Prakash Belawaris character was once again very poorly developed despite his great acting skill.
Overall the movie lacked conviction and consequently lost the tension that a movie of this genre requires. Poor show.
Shikara (2020)
Rubbish!
An absolutely imaginary film, thoroughly disrespecting the fate of the sufferers. Unfortunately the director, although claiming to be Kashmiri, is not actualy a Kashmiri, but was brought up in Kashmir. This would only embolden this person to go gaga over any one who puts a finger on the sanctity of the movie.
1 star simply because I cannot go any lower.
Autograph (2010)
Disappointing
Going by the motto of Satyajit Ray, whose screenplay this movie tried to adopt so desperately, a good movie requires a good script, taut dialogues and definitely good actors. In this movie, unfortunately, script was not original, dialogues were far from natural and other than Prosenjit, everyone else lacked professional acting abilities. Direction lacked conviction in numerous situations. Lack of good dialogues often indulged overlapping conversations of two characters, leading to a very uncomfortable vibe. Character development in some cases were very weak. The part played by Rudraprasad Sengupta needed a very sincere attention, as it was the building block of the character of the hero. Although Prosenjit was very diligent in executing his emotions, the entire sequence with Rudraprasad fell flat on its face.
Only positives that can be taken out of this movie is probably the courageous approach to produce something different out of a known cult classic of Bengali cinema, especially knowing the fact that majority audiences of Bengal hardly ever pardons a movie which dares to modify an established work of art.