Not worth it

Hangover
Samaresh Chatterjee Prosenjit is chairperson-cum-owner of a satellite channel. His wife Chandana Shubra is a partner whose involvement is confined to bringing him lunch every afternoon. It is actually an excuse to keep tabs on her 40-plus husband who has suddenly begun to find young nubile girls very attractive. Samareshs chief executive Rajeev Joy Mukherjee brings Mili Sayantika his attractive fiancée to work as Samareshs personal assistant. Samaresh,who does not know about the relationship,leers at her shamelessly. An uncomfortable Mili complains to Rajeev who instead of getting angry,eggs her on to lead him for better prospects on the job! Chandana,disgusted with her husbands roving eye,concocts an affair with Rajeev. Samaresh is jealous. He hires a bumbling detective Supriyo Dutta to click their pictures but the detective clicks pictures of a different couple! A saddened Samaresh goes away to the Mandarmoni beach resort where his libido is awakened at once when he sees four swimsuit clad females rising from the beach. He concocts another drama by hiring the services of Mitali,a sexy female to tell her so that his wife can hear that he loves Chandana alone. When Chandana gets wise to this drama,she punishes her husband by demoting him to turn personal assistant while she replaces him as chairperson!

Comedy is not really the high point of Bengali mainstream cinema. Many Bengali filmmakers sometimes make entire films aimed at entertaining the audience with light and frothy comedy to be taken with cupfuls of salt. One expected a veteran and National Award-winning director like Prabhat Roy to present the comedy in a more decent and imaginative manner. But Hangover dissapoints. Prosenjit steps into comedy after a long time and plays his actual age as Samaresh,the middle-aged man with the roving eye. But Roy forgets that there is a radical difference between what one would term a dirty middle-aged man and a middle-aged man with a glad-eye for nubile young ladies. The way Samaresh acts 8211; crawling under his work desk to retrieve a pen he has deliberately dropped to take a sneak peek at Milis thighs,or looks directly and lustily at her cleavage to run his tongue across his lips are downright cheap and vulgar,not comic. Prosenjits performance tries to rise above a very badly written character but he could have done much better had the script spared him from stepping into the accepted Poshenjit image from time to time in dream scenes. Roy has plagiarised the Om Shanti Om title song but in a much grosser and badly filmed version. Samaresh becomes a superman wearing the Krissh half-mask in another dream sequence where he flies through the air to bash up Rajeev. Even in a comedy,one would expect the chairperson of any company to act with some dignity.

Another young woman Mitali,quite brazenly drops her pallu every minute and announces that she is prepared to show everything I have to every male who crosses her path. Rajeev has no qualms about using his girlfriends charms,much against her wishes,as his ladder to rise in the firm. The dialogues are bawdy,the script is very weak and the editing is terrible. The cinematography fails to carry the aesthetic signature of Premendu Bikash Chaki.
Rating
Two stars for Prosenjit and performance the rest of the cast whotry to deliver their best within limited circumstances.