The rating for the product would not match with this review, but the only objective of giving this movie a 5 star rating is: the plot.the history. If you have enough time to watch senseless bollywood blockbusters, atleast watch this one to feel proud being an Indian. That’s the least you can do.
"Masterda Surya Sen" and his armed uprising against the British Raj is a story, long forgotten in Bengal itself, leave alone the rest of India. Being an Indian and a Bengali I am not proud of it. At least I find solace in the fact that this episode is still alive in some school curriculum.
The movie was itself not up to the mark, which it should have been, considering the plot it had chosen. Mainly because, every scene in the movie has got it’s own background story which obviously cannot be portrayed in the short time frame. This plot has got so many iconic figures like Pritilata wadder, Kalpona Dutta, Ganesh Ghosh and so on, each of them is a glorious history by their own name.
The result is a very quick rush throughout the movie and obviously the viewers get confused. Episodes like Jalalabad hill fighting and the subsequent events like shooting of the police incharge of Borisaal carry their own weight of history behind and all are linked to the main plot of Chattagram armed robbery. In the movie itself, these are just hurriedly rushed through.
Pritilata wadder commited suicide after being trapped in the European club in a hopeless situation and with no escape route she chose to death. She was in gents wear to gain entry to the club. Several such small deviations are there but that does not undermine, in no way, the director’s effort.
I salute Mr Ashutosh G for bringing this forgotten piece of history into national limelight, atleast for a brief moment. If this movie arise even a little of the enthusiam to search the net and wikipedia for these iconic figures and to know of their sacrifices, the directors’ effort will be rewarded, I guess.
Not everything can be judged in monetary terms of hit and flops. I am staying out of Bengal for my job and has very little hope to get back there someday. But I am sure to keep the DVD copy of this movie so that my son sees it someday about something, which would be lost by that time.
Please pay your tribute to the film’s noble effort by watching it and atleast for a brief period feel proud to be an Indian. Those young teens who sacrificed their lives in the uneven Jalalabad hill fighting that day, armed with simple muskets against British Lewis machine guns, fortunately were far nobler Indians than we are today.
I don’t know what God is like, but must be something like those selfless bunch of people who jumped onto their death smiling, for the entire country.
Best,