Ek Poloke Ektu Dekha

Nayan Anshuman works in a garment shop inside a mall and has the gift of the gab to attract potential female buyers who are young and eligible. Dibakar Dulal Lahiri,the owner of the store is fond of him and depends on him a great deal. One fine morning,a beautiful young girl Moni Kasturi hops in but goes away without buying anything. She comes again and tells Nayan that she wants to be friends with him. By the time they fall head over heels in love,Nayan discovers that Moni is Dibakars daughter and therefore,his bluff to her that he owns the store was called off the minute he mentioned it. After lots of songs and badly-executed and picturised dance sequences,they decide to elope to escape the wrath of Dibakar who hires Bhai Shankar Chakraborty,a dreaded hit-man,to bump off Nayan so that he can marry Moni off to the boy of his choice.

There are two other minor tracks. One of them explores the bonhomie that sustains between Nayan and his father Bodhisatta Majumdar and the other is about the tea-stall owner late Ramaprasad Banik who hands cash to Nayan to fund his dates with Moni. The twist in the tale is the long outdated trick of babies having been exchanged at the cradle in the nursing home. So Nayan is Dibakars son and Moni is Bodhisattas daughter! What a waste of footage,raw stock,finance and everything else! The music except for one song,is nothing to hum about and ditto for technical support in cinematography and editing. The background score is very loud and is sometimes hopelessly out of tune.

Debutant Kasturi is no great shakes and needs to improve her dressing sense desperately. Anshuman tries to camouflage his baby face with a five oclock shadow but does not succeed. The only actors who manage to keep the audience from walking away from the theatres are Shankar Chakraborty as the bumbling Bhai,Dulal Lahiri as the scheming garment store owner,Ramaprasad Banik as the Muslim tea-stall owner and Bodhisatta Majumdar as Nayans friendly but affectionate foster-father. Laboni Sarkar as Monis mother,who helps her daughter in her escapades with the boyfriend,is mediocre.

Verdict:

Two stars for the veteran actors and the filmmaker for having the courage to make this kind of film in the first place and screen it for public exhibition in the second!