Director: Mainak BhaumikWriters: Mainak Bhaumik (dialogue), Mainak Bhaumik (screenplay),
Stars: Abir Chatterjee, Rahul Banerjee, Rudranil Ghosh |
Storyline :
The film is about Joy, Deb and Ananda. While Joy is a struggling actor and conducts workshops, Ananda works in an I.T. company and Deb is an actor. Joy's wife who is a fashion photographer runs the entire show as Joy hardly earns any money, Ananda's wife is a housewife and Deb is forever willing to sleep around with whoever catches his eye (in fact a new girl every day). However barring Deb, the rest of the couples don't share any intimacy at all.
Bedroom Movie Reviews :
What are the risks when a director tries to interlink characters from three stories, restless with the angst of their personal and professional crises? In terms of format, it could become a repetition of what one has been seeing quite often in Indian cinema recently. In terms of content, it would need exceptional performances and probing into the mindspace of characters in a domain that doesn't reduce it to yet another story of the problems of flings resulting from fragile relationships and ego hassles. Needless to say, Mainak had a tough task at hand, especially since the film had to live up to its hype and also bring something new and exciting to the table for Bengali viewers.
For those who came in late, "Bedroom" narrates the tale of three couples — Abir and Paoli, Rahul and Parno, Rudranil and Ushasie. Abir is the corporate guy who hopes for a promotion but gets a pink slip at work and isn't, for some strange reason, able to disclose that to his bored wife — Paoli. Rahul is the yet-to-be cast arthouse actor-turned-teacher who lives in with fashion photographer Parno even while the latter constantly believes that he can't accept the fact that she earns more than him and runs the house. Rudranil is the much-sought-after actor who is happy bed-hopping only to realize that he too could fall in love with a journo (Ushasie).
Adding new threads to these interlocked tales of relationships are the characters played by Tanusree Chakraborty (who believes Rahul is her knight in shining armour and will not judge her for her past), Vikram Chatterjee (an investment banker trying to rekindle his love for old flame Paoli) and Anubrata (a wannabe model with whom Parno has a casual fling).
The biggest advantage for Mainak is his dialogues. Be it Rudranil or even Rahul, the punchlines on love, bachelor party, sex and dhoka have the audience rolling on the floor. The fact that Mainak has able members in the cast (especially Rahul and Rudra) at his disposal only helps when they add their own touch to dialogues. Then again, there is Rupam and Allan Ao's music that is refreshingly apt in terms of the mood of the film. Check out Shreya Ghoshal's "Arekta din". Rupam's "Who am I" and "Amen" and Babul Supriyo's "Bodle Jaye".
The presence of too many characters often runs the risk of a movie's crust getting wafer-thin. There is always a fear of maintaining the balance between revealing too much or being too sketchy. Tanusree might have bagged an interesting character but wonder why the director chose not to reveal her backstory? The same question intrigues when trying to understand Ushasie's choices about love and lust.
When Parno dumps Anubrata in a boys-do-cry scene, it curiously evokes laughter! When Rudranil and Ushasie get intimate, it could have got sensual. "Bedroom"'s punchlines, trendy music, interesting styling and an I-know-thismilieu-well spirit might have worked in its favour but the film could certainly have been more interesting if a sense of empathy was created for the characters.
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