Guwahati Diaries

"Guwahati Diaries" is a creatively bold attempt to explore the urban relationships. As the name suggest, all major characters are pages of the diary - some gets torned away, or some gets new words of hope. The city is watching everything - silently, patiently. I don't usually watch mainstream assamese cinema - as it's not up to the mark and has no soul in it. But Emuthi Puthi and Guwahati Diaries take me back to watch Asaamese cinema and honestly after watching these two films - I am proud of what Assamese mainstream films are capable of. Guwahati Diaries has a soul, has it's own language. The visuals are vibrant, colourful but the stories we are seeing, are grey, dark. That's one of the most beautiful aspect of this movie. Diaouges are feel so real,so connected as it based on the urban class of Guwahati. It has a phillosophical aspect, specially after the interval. Though there are some lack in the storytelling, the honesty of the writers clearly can be seen on the screen. That is important. No art is perfect. This film attemps something that we all witnessed in our life, specially in Guwahati. The film talks about different types of relationship and the characters are dealing with it. This film may be a reality check for someone; specially for the people who come to the city from a small town and gets the ultimate freedom in their life. MISTAKE is used as a good metaphor in the movie and it turns out too good. We all do mistakes right! Very cleaver writing, very cleaver direction.

This may be the best film of Barsha Rani Bishaya. I never knew Ojantrik guy, Udayan Duarah, is such a natural actor. He has a bright future in this indrustry. Argha, somehow, has a lot of similar to his role in Aamis but this is more natural. Urmila Mahanta is the star of the movie, I must say. Ranjeev Lal Baruah has the best expressions though. Editing could be a little better, as well as sound. Who has done the Di, take a bow!! The ending poetry is the metaphor to the whole film, the writer and the director plays pretty good with that. So this is the first movie of it's kind,coming out of Assam may be!