Maa Amaar Maa: Maasala fare

Surya,whose natural mother Alo abandons him in the nursing home,is adopted by the childless Justice Bikash Chatterjee and his wife Chhaya.

Producer: Gautam Kundu
Director: Haranath Chakraborty
Cast: Ranjit Mullick,Sandhya Roy,Laboni Sarkar,Chandan Sen,Debesh Roychoudhury,Shyamal Dutta,Hiron Chatterjee

Surya,whose natural mother Alo abandons him in the nursing home,is adopted by the childless Justice Bikash Chatterjee and his wife Chhaya. He grows up to be a very good boy,saves the local shopkeepers from being victimised by anti-socials,becomes DSP (Town) and gallivants around with his girlfriend,the only child of a noted industrialist. Alo,saved while attempting suicide by Ali Chacha,keeps tracking the growth of Surya from a distance and makes both ends meet by taking in stitching orders. But trouble arrives when Tilok Roy,Alos evil husband,is released from jail. He threatens Alo that he will use the boy to blackmail his rich parents. Alo kills Tilok in a moment of fury,Bikash steps down from his judges seat to defend her and she gets a limited jail term. Just before going to jail,the natural mother is united with her long-lost son and everything ends happily.

Technical Expertise :
Haranath Chakraborty is a no-holds-barred filmmaker whose films are aimed at the front-the masses. There is a little bit of everything that masses find entertaining. Maa Amaar Maa is no exception. He picks the root concept from the mythological story of Krishna who is sired by Vasuki,delivered by Devaki and brought up by Yashoda. Maa Amaar Maa with two Maas in the title gives away much of the story. But unlike his mythological counterpart,Suryo grows up to be the ideal good boy who tops the university,has a beautiful girlfriend on the side to sing and dance with,and fights with goons who terrorise the neighbourhood. He is not aware that his natural father is a killer.

Laboni Sarkar as Alo (Devaki) portrays a struggling mother who,for once,shuts down her glycerine factory,her face veering between expressions of sadness and sheer bliss. Old-timer Sandhya Roy would have done more justice to her Yashoda had she spared her face from too much make-up. Ranjit Mullick as the adoptive father is just fine. Hiron is very good as Suryo,especially in the action scenes that are choreographed very well. Both he and newcomer Dipannita need to polish up their dancing desperately. Dipannitas costumes are bizarre in colour and design. The music is average and so are the cinematography and the production design.
Rating:
Two stars – one for its sheer entertainment value and one for the entire acting cast.

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