It was a bright sunny day, perhaps, when the makers of the
film Ebar Shobor got together and decided that they should definitely make
another film.
“I have a brilliant concept,” said one.
“Let’s hear your story, bro,” anther shined with exuberance
as he uttered the words.
And then the first speaker, whoever he was, convinced the others
of the brilliance of his plot. Platform 9 (the production company) and Arindam
Sil, the director got profusely excited and they started shooting.
It all could have definitely worked that way.
Ebar shobor promises a gripping watch and a better than many
narration of events. However, when the world is full with detectives like
Sherlock Homes and our very own Feluda and Bomkesh, a witty and imaginative Shabor
doesn’t leave a reason for the audience to be impressed.
This is more like a CID episode, sans the pain of stupid
comments. Shobor Dasgupta (played by Saswata Chatterjee) is an interesting man,
personnel of the Detective Department of the Lalbazar Police Station of Kolkata
Police, who takes very much pleasure introducing himself with his rank and
identity.
He is to solve the murder mystery of one Mitali Ghosh
(Swastika Mukherjee) who was found dead after having drunk a lot at a party in
her house. She was the ex-wife of Mithu Mitra (Abir Chatterjee) and had a fling
with Panthu Halder (Ritwick Chakrabarty) before she and Mithu tied the knot. The other important characters include Barun
Ghosh (Deepankar De), Mitali’s father, Doel Ghosh (June Maliyah), Samiran
Bagchi (Ranhul Banerjee) and Haren (Nitya Ganguly).
Saswata as a police officer had played a very important role
in Proloy and his attitude there had the craze for achieving something. Here,
Saswata seems a little too disinterested, perhaps because Ebar Shobor doesn’t have
even one scene of Saswata drinking on screen. Swastika is a perfect fit for the
role. Her real life OCD helps. Abir too was in form. Payel Sarkar as Joyeeta
Ghosh, Mitali’s cousin, seems too tantalized to work with people like the other
members of the cast. Her innocent eyes and body language makes it too unreal to
believe that even she believes that she is actually in the film.
The background score and the couple of songs sufficed the
musical part adequately.
Ebar Shobor is more like the repetition of how a life has an
enormous potential to be screwed away because of flings. If you want to be
thrilled about watching a detective movie, Ebar Shobor is not for you. However,
if your definition of detective literature is CID, Ebar Shobor is your game.
Acting: 2/5
Script: 2.5/5
Direction: 2/5
Overall: 2.3/5
Verdict: Doesn't live up to expectations.
P.S: If you think that you have some skills at being a
detective, you really do if you have been able to guess who the killer is after
reading this review. If you haven’t, take a try and read it once more.
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