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KRANTI
Direcror: Ringo
Cast: Swastika Mukherjee, Ashish Bidyarthi, Locket Chatterjee, Rishi Koushik, Biplab Dasgupta.

In the credits, debutant director Ringo mentions two cult figure filmmakers as his motivation; they are master of action variety John Woo and enfant horrible thrillers Ram Gopal Varma.

Kranti is about college student Jeet who protests against all the injustice and dreaded don Ashish Vidyarthy on his own hand with tit- for -tat blood and guts violence. The plot is inspired by Hindi film Shiva.

Kranti’s screenplay is totally hero centric and Jeet is no doubt outstanding and Ashish as a bad guy is superb. As a true female stereotypes-mother weeps, sister howls and heroine Swastika does absolutely nothing but act pretty in hip hipsters and substance. Here Ringo pours the overdose of excitement. In fact, his stylishly shot and edited sequences and surreal visuals seem incoherent from rest of the film containing commonplace situations, inane dialogues and unbearably silly comic acts. May be the director was compelled to compromise for the sake of some assumed target audience somewhere. Consequently, the film gets excruciatingly long; it could’ve been shorter, more tightly structured and thus more fascinating.

ABHINETRI
Director: Satabdi Roy
Cast: Satabdi Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee, Saheb Chatterjee, Tota Roy Chowdhuri, Tapas Paul.

Abhinetri is evidently is a story of an actress. It is interesting as it’s an insider’s take on the film industry. The story revolves around a renowned and legendary heroine of Bengali movies, Mohini Sen (Satabdi), who leaves the industry at the peak of her career. However, it takes more than willing suspension of disbelief to think of Satabdi as a woman whose beauty is legendary.

The ending is very sensational with the daughter declaring that she is not a product or commodity and tearing up her film agreement while all the while director gives her the male stare! We get to know how evil and nasty media harasses the celebrities. But there is not a suggestion as how the industry uses the media. Abhishek is surprisingly excellent. Satabdi Roy as a director is admirable.

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