Proud and Strong and Made to Be Free

Mishawr Rawhoshyo (Bengali) takes the proud and unrelenting Kakababu (Prosenjit Chatterjee) to Delhi and then Egypt, to discover the true secret behind certain Egyptian hieroglyphics. Aided by cousin Shontu (Aryann Bhowmik), and an uncertain relationship with the revolutionary-at-large Hani Alkadi (Indraneil Sengupta), Kakababu gets on a search for the truth, fraught with danger, where friends such as the businessman Al Mamun (Rajit Kapur) may not be what they seem. A fitting end to Ashtami/ Nabami this year

13.5/20

Missing Person

A harried and heavily pregnant Vidya Bagchi (Vidya Balan) arrives in Kolkata on the eve of the Pujas, and around the second anniversary of an attack on the Kolkata Metro. The mission – to find Arnab Bagchi – a husband who has gone missing since arriving in Kolkata on an assignment. The search for the techie husband proves pretty elusive – neither the National Data Centre, nor the police, seem to be able to unearth any meaningful leads. Vidya keeps at her mission – with the help of one police officer Satyaki (Parambrata Chatterjee) – in Kahaani - a movie that is mildly memorable for two reasons. Firstly, the movie shows more vignettes of Kolkata life than any Hindi movie that I can remember for quite a while. Second, true to the thriller genre, nothing in the movie is quite what it seems and the movie succeeds at the genuine element of surprise

13.5/20