Dr. Bezbarua 2 (2023) User Reviews

Good story, lazy writing, unnecessary climax.

[manabrockz · 7/10 · 13 February 2023]

The story had potential but the execution was not to my liking. I went to watch the movie because everyone around me was so hyped for this movie. The story is nothing new. You may find a similar story in tollywood, bollywood or hollywood. It is a good one-time watch movie. The cinematography was good, the comic interludes were also likeable. The direction was found lacking in the suspense and tragedy sector where the movie failed to draw the audience in. Then there were some unnecessary climaxes. I don't want to be critical but why not try to do better, try better then simply following the cliche Bollywood style. How can someone photograph in a CM house so easily? How can a CBI inspector be wearing earrings and a thick neckband? And in the ending, the unnecessary face mask. Isn't this lazy writing which could have been solved with better writing?

Still ignoring all this, I was able to enjoy the movie. Hope we find better Assamese movies where the audience show equal love and hope that the film makers make better movies, and don't just become another branch of bollywood.

Being a Zubeen Garg film and a sequel to a superhit of yesteryears in balance

[kalpa-778-854780 · 6 June 2023]

Directed by the late veteran actor Nipon Goswami, Dr. Bezbaruah 2, just like the first one, offers the story of the return of the prodigal son back to his roots. After seven years, Shantanu (played by Siddharth Goswami) returns to Assam to attend his sister's wedding. But with an insoluble truth of the not-so-distant past, can the demons be far behind?

Produced by Dr Sanjive Narain and Dr Akshata Narain, Dr. Bezbaruah 2 is stylish and its exuberant display of production value evidences the amount of money invested in it. It offers layers of thrills, and the pacing is just right enough to hold boredom at bay. And the expositions are placed at successive intervals which make this suspenseful thriller with many twists and turn not so difficult to understand.

However, the issue with the screenplay is how the twists and turns are revealed. Because the characters want to reveal their actions for themselves, Dr. Bezbaruah 2 makes for a classic case of poor writing. Both Ranjan Goswami and Shantanu admit to doing whatever it is that they had done in front of each other. It would have been far more engaging and entertaining if the characters had used their own investigative capacities to arrive at that information about each other. Instead, there are scenes where the characters now awkwardly stand in the frame while one explains how he outwitted the other.

In order to stay true to the classic film written and directed by Brajen Barua in 1969 and to tickle the awe of the people who have actually seen the first part, the script of Dr. Bezbaruah 2 attempts to incorporate twists from the original film. For the benefit of the readers of this review, I will want to highlight that spoilers for both the movies will be provided from this point. Therefore, continue reading it at your own risk.

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