Dostojee

In order to dilute the overdose of football, went for a Bengali Movie DOSTOJI.

After multiple awards in various film festivals (including Cannes), it was released in Kolkata.

Those who are missing the art films of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Gautam Ghosh and Buddhadeb Dasgupta, must see the movie.

The beautifully picturized movie tried to capture how loss of a simple and essentially rural friendship affects an innocent child, his surroundings, and his academics. The characters around him (only a few) and their interfaces make the film outstanding, because it takes you to childhood friends and the oscillating relationship.

I felt absolutely possesion less, looking inside and looking past the simple lower middle class childhood. Those golden days that gifted frequent priceless moments but disappeared quickly as I grew up.

A must visit to a good theatre as dull screen may mar the vividity of rural landscape often drenched with heavy rains that make the main soundscape more often than not. And a heavy rain changed the story line suddenly - when the theme of the movie penetrates your ego and take you back to humble childhood.

You may miss the extraordinary cinematography, if you see the movie in an average cinema hall.

Having said that, i did not like the end of the movie where a particular bird's call fill the vacancy of a child's mind, that was so overwhelmed by a tragedy.

Go and explore your memoryscape with this movie.

Disclaimer : This is not a paid review. This film does not show poverty at all. However, the rural background with ordinary people having absolutely no glamour may not bring entertainment to many. But people loving "art films" close to Real Life of Rural Bharat and enjoying the movies made by Ray, Sen & Ghatak , Benegal and Gopalakrishnan would definitely like it, I feel.