Kajol (Ritwick Chakraborty) meets Sraboni (Jaya Ahsan) at a reality show TV shoot. Both claim to come from mediocre backgrounds as the reel unfolds. Kajol is a photographer, living alone and saving up for his upcoming wedding with Antara, and has misplaced fifty thousand rupees on this fateful day, and Sraboni has broken her daughter's favourite flower vase, and is going around town looking for a replacement. As Kajol assists Sraboni in treating her sprained wrist and a bruise on her elbow, they share their backgrounds with each other and bond on the rainy day. But towards the end of the day, Sraboni springs a surprise on Kajol that leads to their encounter ending rather abruptly. As the movie progresses we learn that Kajol and Sraboni are, in reality, leading completely different lives. He is a construction company executive, much married and has a son. She is the managing director of a tea company, very sophisticated and unmarried. Why they did what they did with each other is because of "Sehnsucht", the yearning to be someone else, to lead a different life that offers them fulfillment. Incidentally, this isn't the last encounter with each other for them, as their paths cross again and again, each time with startling consequences. On each occasion, Sraboni stuns Kajol, as the latter grapples to find out her philosophy of life. Kajol wonders, is the execution of a second life possible without strings being attached.
"Binisutoy" is a remarkable subject for exploration. It represents a state of mind and allied actions that create a different world for the individuals, but what they do touches many other lives, sometimes indelibly. Writer-director Atanu Ghosh weaves a magical web of imagination within reality with immense possibilities, but not without an impact on others whose lives the protagonists touch. It's a subject we saw in Imtiaz Ali's "Tamasha" (2015) where Ved (Ranbir Kapoor) meets Tara (Deepika Padukone) masquerading as a fun loving individual who actually had a very sombre life. All this is really about "Sehnsucht", it's not harmless fun as what the "actor" does out of his / her yearning for a different life can create a lasting impression on others, often irreversible. On the other hand, if the "acting" is allowed to continue for much long, it could end up in bipolar or multiple personality disorders for the individual practitioner, as the line dividing reality and masquerade starts to fade.
Enjoy "Binisutoy". It has formidable and convincing performances of Jaya Ahsan and Ritwick Chakraborty as they transport us to a different world and bring us back in a thought provoking journey. Debajyoti Mishra's music is marvellous and Sujay Datta Ray's editing is sheer artwork.
"Binisutoy" is a remarkable subject for exploration. It represents a state of mind and allied actions that create a different world for the individuals, but what they do touches many other lives, sometimes indelibly. Writer-director Atanu Ghosh weaves a magical web of imagination within reality with immense possibilities, but not without an impact on others whose lives the protagonists touch. It's a subject we saw in Imtiaz Ali's "Tamasha" (2015) where Ved (Ranbir Kapoor) meets Tara (Deepika Padukone) masquerading as a fun loving individual who actually had a very sombre life. All this is really about "Sehnsucht", it's not harmless fun as what the "actor" does out of his / her yearning for a different life can create a lasting impression on others, often irreversible. On the other hand, if the "acting" is allowed to continue for much long, it could end up in bipolar or multiple personality disorders for the individual practitioner, as the line dividing reality and masquerade starts to fade.
Enjoy "Binisutoy". It has formidable and convincing performances of Jaya Ahsan and Ritwick Chakraborty as they transport us to a different world and bring us back in a thought provoking journey. Debajyoti Mishra's music is marvellous and Sujay Datta Ray's editing is sheer artwork.
