Mukherji’s textbook approach to adapting Ray’s iconic detective gets the ‘look’ right, but isn’t quite successful in translating the story from book to screen
My list contains some fairly unanimous classics, some contentious ones, some ordinary and possibly even some bad films. The only common thread running through them is they have entered my terrestrial screenplay at some point of time.
The film’s major strengths are the performances and the dialogues, which is not surprising given that Srijit has literally rewritten the rules of dialogue-writing in Bangla cinema
Basking in the glow of two huge back-to-back hits this year, the filmmaker talks about his interpretation of an iconic novel that has endured in the popular imagination as much for its much-loved 1968 film version starring Uttam Kumar