A hilarious movie (another of my wife's choicest gifts to me) by Dinen Gupta featuring comic geniuses, Rabi Ghosh and Anup Kumar and also some memorable numbers by Hemanta Mukherjee adds to its appeal. Though Ranjit Mallick plays the lead role but he is never a good hero but his comic senses make certain scenes delightful to watch. Aparna Sen diffuses in her role well and Chinmoy also was the correct choice for his side role.
The drama is about a young budding singer and thus quite correctly an eligible bachelor Sankar Sen, who lives with his maternal uncle and aunt, the later trying to find the right bride for their nephew. In this pursuit, they ultimately chooses Mita, who not only comes from a respectable family but also is an ardent lover of music and a also a fan of Sankar Sen. But problem is that since Sankar Sen avoid publicity, so there is not a public photograph for her to identify her fiancé. Thus she quite readily agrees to the proposal though doesn’t show off her approval. On the other hand Sankar is also excited once he sees Mita’s photo but soon he learns that her grandfather has kept only one condition and that is the future son-in-law must stay with them after marriageThis infuriates Sankar and he escapes temporarily to North Bengal at his friend Barun’s place. But as it happens, Mita also is on a holiday at the same place with her grandfather and the duo meets face to face. At that moment, in order to prevent identification Sankar introduces Barun as himself and passes him as Barun and thus initiates a series of comedy of errors. But the intelligent Mita soon finds out the true identities and then sets a trap for Sankar. But being ignorant to all this, Sankar and Barun continues their acting, much to the chagrin of the later who is already engaged to another lady. So the confusion continues and the entire second half is filled with some extremely funny sequences devoid of any unpleasant scenes and thus proving it to be a must watch for comedy lovers.
As an afterthought, I find this movie, set in so early days of Bengali cinema actually proves itself superior to several of the Bollywood or Tollywood productions of current generation and thus it really saddens me when I find that the treasure of old always seems to be underutilized by the present. So I recommend this to the movie lovers to have a peek into this classic.
The drama is about a young budding singer and thus quite correctly an eligible bachelor Sankar Sen, who lives with his maternal uncle and aunt, the later trying to find the right bride for their nephew. In this pursuit, they ultimately chooses Mita, who not only comes from a respectable family but also is an ardent lover of music and a also a fan of Sankar Sen. But problem is that since Sankar Sen avoid publicity, so there is not a public photograph for her to identify her fiancé. Thus she quite readily agrees to the proposal though doesn’t show off her approval. On the other hand Sankar is also excited once he sees Mita’s photo but soon he learns that her grandfather has kept only one condition and that is the future son-in-law must stay with them after marriageThis infuriates Sankar and he escapes temporarily to North Bengal at his friend Barun’s place. But as it happens, Mita also is on a holiday at the same place with her grandfather and the duo meets face to face. At that moment, in order to prevent identification Sankar introduces Barun as himself and passes him as Barun and thus initiates a series of comedy of errors. But the intelligent Mita soon finds out the true identities and then sets a trap for Sankar. But being ignorant to all this, Sankar and Barun continues their acting, much to the chagrin of the later who is already engaged to another lady. So the confusion continues and the entire second half is filled with some extremely funny sequences devoid of any unpleasant scenes and thus proving it to be a must watch for comedy lovers.
As an afterthought, I find this movie, set in so early days of Bengali cinema actually proves itself superior to several of the Bollywood or Tollywood productions of current generation and thus it really saddens me when I find that the treasure of old always seems to be underutilized by the present. So I recommend this to the movie lovers to have a peek into this classic.
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