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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 by watchstream
Chiriyakhana (1967)iMDB Rating: 7.4Date Released : 25 October 2010
Genre : Mystery
Stars : Uttam Kumar, Kalipada Chakraborty, Nripati Chatterjee, Shekhar Chatterjee." />
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB
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Worst film of Satyajit Ray
This is coming from a big fan of Uttam Kumar, Satyajit and Sharadindu -- -
This is not only THE WORST movie made by Satyajit Ray, but it may be one of the most boring detective movie ever made. Period. From 1997 I tried to watch this 4 times at night and every time I slept in the middle. Due to a lot of courage and love for the original book, last year (2009) I could watch it completely (after waking up). I cannot believe that the director and screen writer was Satyajit Ray. It does not show any characteristic of Ray.
There was only one thing that got murdered in the film and that was the book named "Chiriya Khana". The original story by Sharadindu was weak, but engrossing. I read it a few times just because of the fluency of the writer and I have no problem in reading it again. Sharadindu's writing reminds me of a calm river smoothly flowing towards the ocean. Even a weak story can be so attractive just because of his writing skill. However the movie is a different media and Ray's version did not do the necessary adjustments to make it even remotely interesting.
Apart from being slow, the movie looks contrived; some changes are over-the-top and unnecessary e.g. baby python, skeleton, posters, Japanese horticulturist. Why the heck a Bengali guy would disguise as a Japanese (skin color, facial structure, eyes)? Isn't it easy to disguise as another Bengali (or at least a Marathi, Punjabi etc)?
The acting was OK; actors looked drugged, but they are victims of a poor screen play. As far as Uttam Kumar's Byomkesh goes, it is just another detective, but not Byomkesh Bakshi.
The end was quick, but that was probably the best part of the film because it stops the torture on the viewers.
I don't know how it received so many awards and how some people gave it so high ratings. I can only guess that since we (bengalis) don't get to see too many Bengali detective flicks, we applause whatever comes in our way. Sigh!!!
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