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I liked previous Apran Sen's movies, specially the very first one - '36 Chowranghee Lane'. But in contrary to common view, it was quite disappointing. May be I was expecting too much. As I am residing in Japan for quite long, I know how improbable is this story. Also, how they two first became pen-friends remains a mystery. This movie sometimes tried to be realistic, and sometimes too dreamy. But happened to be neither serious nor entertaining. Only the cinematography looks good. Humors are also mostly did not work (for me). But its a relative thing. If anyone prefers impractical but idealistic characters in movies, they may like it. Usually reliable Rahul Bose looks very much like 'acting', hardly natural. But seems this movie has a big fan-base, so you can also give it a try.

First of all it is not a Hindi language movie, as it is written here. It is a Bengali movie based on Rabindranath Tagore's story with the same name. The story was written around 1915 and was way ahead of the time and naturally caused an uproar among the conservative minded people. And surprisingly it includes people like Bipin Chandra Pal. The story is about the conflict between narrow minded rich people against a woman with open and broad mind, literate and with great personality. Natually a complete misfit to this family as well as to the contemporary society. Acting is very good and sometimes look like a Ray movie. I don't know whether Purnyendu Patri made any other film than this or not, but it is of very high quality, though not popular. Worth watching it.

If you look at this movie critically, you can find too many loop-holes. There is basically no story and whatever it has, is very much predictable and not exactly very practical. But if you can overlook these problems, and just try to enjoy it, you can actually. It is at least not one of those movies, that tired to be serious but failed miserably - it did not try to be one. There are some lighthearted humorous dialogs and the story never tried to be complicated. Its a typical escapist type romantic comedy. The chemistry between Uttam Kumar and Anjana Bhowmik worked well and side characters - Pahari Sanyal, Anuva Gupta and Jahar played their part adequately. Have some fun while watching and then forget may be.