Indrashish (Kay Kay Menon) is a clerk with an unhealthy obsession for prosthetics.
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In a series sold on innovation, this is the weakest link. I was put off by the exaggerated production design and bad dialogue (“You make me feel like Juliet”). The Calcutta setting comes complete with trams, old theatres and dingy chinese restaurants. If Forget Me Not is a modern take, Behrupiya feels more like a peace offering to Ray purists. The extended climax Srijit designs and shoots is too expository – the cardinal sin of short story adaptations.Īlso directed by Srijit, this one follows a makeup artist with a peculiar bout of god complex. My only problem is with how the whole thing ends. The sequence by the pool, where Ipsit finally blows a fuse, is starkly unsettling. Ali Fazal nails the mannerism of a man about to go off his rails. Written by Siraj Ahmed, this is a relentlessly slick adaptation of Ray, both visually and in narrative terms. Why, then, can’t he remember it? Srijit Mukherji’s film sets the general tone of the series. “Try your recycle bin,” his friend jokes a few days later, confirming that Ipsit did take such a trip a few years ago. Worse, his award-winning ‘computer memory’ brain can’t fetch the particulars of a romantic night she claims to have spent with him. She picks out Ipsit (Ali Fazal) and attempts striking up a conversation. It’s a fitting approach to view a show like this.Īt a glitzy rooftop bar, a woman walks down with her drink. The running order remains the same, though you’d be well advised to shake it up a bit. Since all four segments stretch the 50-minute mark, I’ve discussed them individually.
But would he have approved of the films? My guess is that he would admire their experimental sheen, while being ambivalent about doing them all in Hindi.