Highly over-rated at present. Let me put it in a nicer way .I love these filmmaker duo and "Icche" is their best movie till date .
This one (Praktan) is a boring Coaching class of "what to do and what not to do in a relationship".
People who are not familiar with Prasenjit Chatterjee and Rituparna Sengupta,( the star casts of the film ), and the Bengali music band "Bhoomi" , will find this movie even more boring.
Honestly, its a 22 min story told in 2 hr 22 min! That too with the help of Sequences totally UNRELATED TO THE MAIN STORY .
Worst moment(other than the Biswanath-Manali episodes) :(Spoiler ahead) When Rituparna enjoys the 'Kolkata' song and starts remembering her sweet first meet with Prasenjit, her ex-hubby . Now, you must be thinking "What's the problem with that?" The problem is , This comes in the next minute of a phone call which confirms that the lady in her coupe is her Ex-husband's present wife, and she gets visually ANGRY with Prasenjit and his entire family again, after 10 years ! And suddenly she starts cherishing "sweet memories"!- How impractical and absurd!
However,Prasenjit Chatterjee did justice to his character , his acting is very subtle and splendid . And a song, "Tumi jake Bhalobasho" is the other thing that I loved . Iman Chakraborty's version is better .
My rating is 5.5 . The rating of 1 is just to pull down its overrating which is currently at 8.3, (same as of "Pather Panchali" by the Great Trio of Satyajit Ray-Subrata Mitra-Banshi Chandragupta) , which is not justified.
This one (Praktan) is a boring Coaching class of "what to do and what not to do in a relationship".
People who are not familiar with Prasenjit Chatterjee and Rituparna Sengupta,( the star casts of the film ), and the Bengali music band "Bhoomi" , will find this movie even more boring.
Honestly, its a 22 min story told in 2 hr 22 min! That too with the help of Sequences totally UNRELATED TO THE MAIN STORY .
Worst moment(other than the Biswanath-Manali episodes) :(Spoiler ahead) When Rituparna enjoys the 'Kolkata' song and starts remembering her sweet first meet with Prasenjit, her ex-hubby . Now, you must be thinking "What's the problem with that?" The problem is , This comes in the next minute of a phone call which confirms that the lady in her coupe is her Ex-husband's present wife, and she gets visually ANGRY with Prasenjit and his entire family again, after 10 years ! And suddenly she starts cherishing "sweet memories"!- How impractical and absurd!
However,Prasenjit Chatterjee did justice to his character , his acting is very subtle and splendid . And a song, "Tumi jake Bhalobasho" is the other thing that I loved . Iman Chakraborty's version is better .
My rating is 5.5 . The rating of 1 is just to pull down its overrating which is currently at 8.3, (same as of "Pather Panchali" by the Great Trio of Satyajit Ray-Subrata Mitra-Banshi Chandragupta) , which is not justified.