Ray
Directors: Srijit Mukherjee (Forget Me Not, Bahrupiya), Abhishek Chaubey (Hungama Kyon Hain Barapa), Vasan Bala (Spotlight)
Cast: Ali Fazal, Shruthy Menon, Shweta Basu Prasad (Forget Me Not); Kay Kay Menon (Bahrupiya) ; Manoj Bajpayee, Gajaraj Rao (Hungama Kyon Hain Barpa); Harshvarrdhan Kapoor, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Radhika Madan (Spotlight).
Bringing a novel or short story to life through images is never easy. However, there have been exceptions such as Satyajit Ray and Adoor Gopalakrishnan among others. Both Rey and Adoor did justice to the adaptation and much more.
Ray was a prolific writer himself, and four of his short stories have been filmed as a four-episode anthology titled Ray, and are now streaming on Netflix. Run by three directors, the work is largely obsolete, as it fails in its composition, screenplay and editing. The performances, barring a few, aren’t great either.
Ali Fazal is interesting as Ipsit in Srijit Mukherji’s Forget Me Not. As a flamboyant, deceitful and highly intelligent corporate partner, who prides himself as a man whose memory never fails, he runs into a personal and professional disaster with the person he trusts. is. One evening, he meets a woman in a bar, who tells him that they have had sex in a hotel near the Ajanta caves. Ipsit can’t remember what the woman did, despite the minute details of the encounter. The segment loses its clarity towards the end, and Shweta Basu Prasad as Ipsit’s secretary, Maggie, is very wooden.
In Mukherjee’s second episode, Baharupiya, Kay Kay Menon plays a film make-up artist who uses his skills to destroy his opponents, but soon becomes completely helpless. Menon is not as bad as Indrashish, trying to change his look using different types of prosthetics. But don’t be prepared for sad consequences.
Abhishek Chaubey’s Hungama Kyun Hai Barpa deals with a very worrying condition, kleptomania. Shot almost entirely inside a first class air-conditioned coupe (I couldn’t believe AC coaches are so luxurious), this part is the most fascinating. Manoj Bajpayee’s traveler is shocked to see Ali Baig (Gajraj Rao) also traveling with him.
A kleptomaniac, Ali remembers he stole a classy dress watch from Baig ten years ago. Baig doesn’t seem to remember the incident, and the twist at the end is simply spectacular. Choubey’s episodes are handled with great care, and Bajpayee is a fine performer with an amazing range. I see him as a sly homosexual in Aligarh, as a shrewd young man trying to break order in Satyagraha, as a psychological wreck trapped inside a room in Gali Guleiyan and as a ruthless Chambal dacoit in Sonchiriya I remember Rao is also great as a man who pretends with amazing readiness.
Vasan Bala talks about religion versus cinema in the spotlight, and comes nowhere near Ray’s Ghanshatru, not religion versus entertainment but a brilliant take on science. Adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s play, An Enemy of the People, Ray’s work starred the late Soumitra Chatterjee as a medical doctor who tries hard to convince the villagers that temple offerings are responsible for the outbreak of an epidemic. . The spotlight focuses on the life of a movie star, Vikram (Harshvardhan Kapoor), who becomes enraged when he learns that the sadhvi, Divya Didi (Radhika Madan), draws a huge crowd at the hotel where he is staying. which he could never have expected. for.
The climax is fascinating and reveals what Didi really is. Chandan Roy Sanyal as Vikram’s agent Robby really beats the rest of the cast. Actors can also be a reason to see the spotlight.
Rating: 2/5
(Gautam Bhaskaran is a film critic and biographer of Adoor Gopalakrishnan)
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