Mon Chaye Tomaaye

Onis car suddenly lands in front of a haunted house,where the family members seem to be waiting for a bridegroom to arrive. They are ghosts waiting for the decked up ghost-bride Roopeshwari to get married to her lover who was killed by the same family in what seems to be a khap Panchayat ruling 300 years ago.

They request Oni to marry Roopeshwari and strangely,Riya does the same. He agrees,but to marry Riya instead of Roopeshwari. The rituals are performed,the curse is broken and suddenly,the present-day lovers wake up on a handcart and hit the road.

But there is a second ghost story. After Riya and Oni are united to their respective families,Oni suddenly finds himself summoned to report for a photographers job in a remote resort owned by Kalpana,a seductive young woman who makes a pass at him immediately. She is none other than Roopeshwari in a different form come back to avenge his marriage to another girl. She puts Oni under a strange spell and does everything no ghost,male or female,has ever done on the Bengali screen.

She changes her form from Kalpana to Roopeshwari to stick a long tongue out and lick up the telephone numbers from Onis cellphone memory when he is not looking. As Kalpana,she dresses up in designer lingerie and custom-made dresses updated to 2010 pulled out from an imaginary wardrobe to perform an item number. There is a dream song-and-dance number executed by the ghostly Kalpana and the earthy Oni who sometimes remembers that Riya is waiting for him. She also organises a Santhali dance in the woods to entertain Oni and participates in it in a daydream. Her ghost parents persuade her to give up Oni as he belongs to the live world and when she refuses to listen,her ghost mother gives her one stinging slap to shake her up. The slap transforms her and she vanishes into the star-spangled sky where a full moon is up. To make a tall story short,Kalpana does everything a flesh-and-blood human being does save getting pregnant! That is because Oni throws her out of his bedroom several times though he is not indifferent to her romantic overtures.

There are other laughable gaffes like Riyas disappearing footwear,or the moody cell-phones that are here this minute and gone the next or the 300-year-old ghost knowing all about erasing numbers from a cell-phone.Pamela Mandal as Kalpana plays a very convincing ghost. Kamlesh needs a makeover and Moubani needs a meatier role. The art work in the credit titles is fabulous for a film that does not live up to this beautiful promise.

Kayas musical score and the song tracks are very good,adding some serious chutzpah to this otherwise hilarious film. Mon Chaaye Tomaaye reportedly went through three directorial changes during its making. The end result of the creativity of three directors has produced a film with two ghost stories and one love story for the price of one!