Bhooter Bhabishyat

One stark difference between Ray and his two great contemporaries Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak is that Ray's movies, although being of the so-called art film genre, were as acceptable and entertaining to the masses as they appeal to the senses of the intelligentsia. Anik Dutta's directorial debut primarily catches that aspect of film-making where he was able to delve into Bangalis' thoughts and existence through generations across sections of the society via the multicoloured characterisations in this film. It is a wholesome entertainer which drives home pertinent points of modern and erstwhile Bengali society through comic relief to the masses. Read a full-blown article on the front page of a popular Bengali daily (which happened to publish the story the film is based on) and decided to watch this one, and it matched up to its review, a deservedly huge huge hit and a wonderful movie... 7/10