Monday, March 03, 2008

Hoccheta Ki

The film directed by Basu Chatterjee features a varied cast of artists who had pumped a breath of fresh air in these modern days of Bengal films where a comedy based story line has become a thing of the past.
The film features a Calcutta based medical representative, Madhu Sen (Prasenjit) who is caught up in an extramarital affair with a lonely lady Juhi(Arunima) who doesn't know that Madhu is married. Madhu, whose job usually keeps him out of town fairly regularly doesn't find it hard to bluff either his wife Priya(Pauli) or Juhi about his movements. He also buys Juhi a flat at Darga Road while he continues to live with his wife at Ballygunge place. But the trouble starts when Madhu and Juhi plans for the 3rd time to get married in court and on the same day Madhu promises his wife and job less rich friend Ranjit (Rajatava) of a aternoon lunch at a restaurant. Madhu's plan was to keep his promise with his wife and Ranjit and after the lunch would pretend to leave for a tour to Digha while in actuality he had asked Arunima that they will get married in the evening and start on their 3 days honeymoon to Digha. The problem arises in the form of a lady being robbed of her valuables by street goons in front of a bus-stand where Madhu was waiting to return home to keep his promise. On seeing the lady in distress, Madhu tries to save her but gets flogged on the head and black outs. As he is being shifted to a hospital a confused Madhu enters his Darga Road address in the hospital register. Meanwhile both his wife and Juhi files missing person's diary respectively in Ballygunge PS & Darga Road PS. On regaining consciousness, Madhu allows a cop (Ramaprasad Banik) of Ballygunge PS to accompany him to his Ballygunge residence much to the later's confusion about his real address.
Next starts the hilarious sequences of misadventures, misinterpretations and misunderstandings where the better part of the comedy being shared by Rajatava, Mr. Banik and Paran
Bandhyopadhyay who plays the role of the Darga Road cop investgating the dissapearance of Madhu. The story ends in a happy note.
Though the middle part of the movie is awfully exciting but the start could have been made more livelier and the end less abrupt. But as a whole it is a amusing piece of movie and worth watching!

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