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Movie Review : Baishe Srabon

Title : Baishe Srabon Language : Bengali Year : 2011 Director : Srijit Mukherjee Genre : Mystery, Crime IMDB Link Watch trailer on YouTube Lead Role :  Parambrata Chatterjee, Prasenjit Chattarjee, Raima Sen Baishe Srabon (22 Srabon) is a Bengali crime thriller with enough mystery elements thrown in to keep you the viewers enthralled and guessing. A serial killer is on the prawl, who finishes off people at nights and leaves verses from poems behind. The clueless police seeks the help of a brilliant ex-cop who was suspended from service thanks to his infamous torture methods. The script is intense, with cross references to Bengali literature and some history. The casting is perfect, and background score stands out. The movie is not exactly a fast paced thriller, but never loses the flow. Parambrata Chatterjee is turning into one of my favorite actors.

Movie Review: Hemlock Society

Title : Hemlock Society Language : Bengali Year : 2012 Director : Srijit Mukherjee Genre : Drama, Comedy, Romance IMDB Link Watch trailer on Youtube Lead Role :    Koyel Mallick ,  Parambrata Chatterjee ,  Roopali Ganguly Meghna, a lady in her primes hits a low in life when successive tragedies happens in her life. Her mother dies, her father remarries a woman whom she could not connect with, her boyfriend cheats on her, and she loses her job. She feels she has suffered enough and decides to end her life. That's when Anand enters life. But, unlike in most films, Anand does not bring rays of hope into her life. Anand runs a rather secretive society by the name Hemlock Society, which gives people who wish to suicide a fully professional course on how to do it. He takes Meghna for a three day crash course. The rest is best watched on screen. The movie may not figure in the best movies of all times. The plot is predictable to an extent. Still, the two hours ...