This film is based on the novel "RANGEEN PRITHIBI"(Colourful World) by
the eminent writer Suchitra Bhattacharya. The story is about Tollywood
life - their struggle, their dreams of those who are in & outside
the industry. Their emotional conflicts, motivations & ultimate
goals or achievements in life.
The story of Tolly lights revolves around Abhimunya who come to Kolkata
from a small hilly town of north Bengal with a dream of making it big
as a Director in the Tollygunge tinsel town. It is about his struggle
to find a foothold in the industry as a director & his numeros
failures. His righteouness, reluctance to take help frm questionable
sources & sense of ethicsmake him a misfit in the industry.
Around
this he writes a movie script, RANGEEN PRITHIBI which he dreams of
directing one day. After each humiliation & failure, he comes back
to the script adding notes& making changes to the script. The tory
has other charecters - Subroto, the conematographer who wishes well for
Abhimanyu’s mentor, Debjit, the rising star & the heroineof the
film, Krishnakali. Krishnakali is actually Abhimanyu’s friend’s wife
who leaves her family, husband & little child to become a succesful
movie star & for who Abhimanyu cares much. Krishnakali compromises
with the potental producer to fulfil his life long desire & dream
to direct film - RANGEEN PRITHIBI. Abhimanyu comes to know about this
& unable to accept her sacrifice for him, faces a dilemma - to
carry on or quit. Finally Sunny Deol comes to Kolkata & asks him to
direct the film for him.
Abhimanyu agrees & make his dream come
true. Positives First ever film made on Tolly world, high paid start
cast, brilliant acting skills, good story by Suchitra Bhattacharya.
Negatives Needs more skill to direct such A1 novel based films, story
lacks links somewhere in midst, no fate, personal life reflection of
the director in the film, no ups & downs in the movie to make
spectetors sit strong, docu-feature about -ve sides of film & TV
-MEDIA with help of some imaginary charecters.