Hello Guys! After a long hiatus, we are finally back with our second blog. I guess we weren’t being missed that much. Jokes apart, this time we would be reviewing Srijit Mukherjee’s Dwitiyo Purush.
DWITIYO PURUSH
PLOT:
Dwitiyo Purush( Second Male) as the english translation goes is the sequel to 2011 Thriller Baishey Srabon. After a gap of 9long years, the sequel came to existence. And to be very honest, the film was ‘not worth the wait’. The film starts with a gang war situated in Kolkata’s China Town during the early 90’s. The film has a run time of around 129minutes and is very short. The film has a pretty slow start but gradually picks up pace and has a unexpected ending with a lots of twists and turns, which I personally think wasn’t needed. The film is based on a series of crime events happening exactly in the pattern they had occurred about 25years ago. 25years ago, in the bylanes of Tangra’s Chinatown resided a uprising young and violent gangster. But due to certain unforeseen events, he gets arrested.
Skip to 25yrs and also 9years after the events of Baishey Srabon, Inspector Abhijeet Pakrashi(Parambrata Chatterjee) is suffering from PTSD(Baishey Srabon reference) and is also balancing his failing marriage. 25years later, the arrested gangster is released and this time, he is on his way to regain this lost empire but again commits a series of murders in exactly the same way, they were done back then. Inspector Pakrashi is then assigned to solve the crime. The film is fun to watch, doesn’t drag and also has the perfect touch of humour in it. Some of the dialogues are pretty iconic. The only thing majorly missing in the film is, the Plot.
CAST:
The film has an assembled cast of Good actors, like Parambrata Chatterjee, Anirban Bhattacharya, Rwitobrata Mukherjee and Gaurav Chakraborty. Everybody does justice to their assigned roles, but Anirban Bhattarcharya has a different kind of glaze in him. His screen presence just can’t be missed. Whenever Anirban comes on screen, the screen turns into gold. Even Srijit Mukherjee has a cameo in the film, which is quite common in all his films.
SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack of the movie is possibly it’s strongest suit due to the evenly distributed tone of the composition and the consistent sense of terror mingles with the overall theme of the plot and the movie in its exaction. The vocals of Arijit Singh coupled with the lyrical genius of Anupam Roy provide the movie with character unlike a lot of Mukherjee’s films I’m recent times. But, from the perspective of someone who’s watched the prequel, Dwitiyo Purush tends to leave a sour taste in ones mouth with regards to the soundtrack, due to its lack of versatility and range. A retouched version of, “Je Kawta Din” has been used in this film, and goes very well with film and the current reel situation. Anupam Roy and Arijit Singh show us, why they are the best in their respective positions.
FINAL WORDS
The film ends with a lots of twists and turns which I think were unnecessary and were just inserted for the sake of just giving them. The film has unnecessary loads of cuss words which weren’t necessary and the film would have made it fine without it. The film is very gory and has lots of bloodshed, people who can’t stand blood, please give it a miss or watch at your own risk. Overall, the film is okay and is not a must watch. The film failed to reach the bar set by this film’s prequel, Baishey Srabon. If you visit the theatre with hopes as high as this film’s prequel, get ready to get disappointed.
CONTRIBUTORS:
- Moumita Ghosh
- Shounak Chakrabarti
- Kushan Niyogi
- Shrishti Gupta
- Rohan Palodhi
- Debasrita Ghosh
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