SHABDO : Listen to the sounds!!

 And a weekend ends on a much happier note if its ends with a wonderful film! A well crafted,simple, yet multi layered film exploring ‘Sounds’. Dr. Louis Colaianni had once said that sound has a profound effect on the senses. It can be both herd and felt. It can even be seen with the mind’s eye. It can almost be tasted and smelled. Sound can evoke responses of the five senses. Sound can paint a picture, produce a mood, trigger the senses to remember another time and place. Sounds that can become an obsession for a master craftsman, sounds that might turn out to be a hindrance to the every day's proceedings, extraneous sounds that can turn one deaf to the voices emerging out of the vocal cords of the surrounding people.Kaushik Ganguly brilliantly captures few of the silent shots/ images in the film, at times, reminding me of Ingmar Bergman’s 'Cries and Whispers', giving ample time to play with the protagonists emotions, the camera brilliantly captures Ritwik’s inner psyche, charmingly coupled with his trademark innocence and boyish appeal. At one point, Churni Ganguly asks her professor ‘Who are we to decide listening to which sort of extraneous sounds makes one normal while others abnormal?' An unique concept of the film has been brought out towards the climax with the theme's similar reference to the double vision squint eyed concept, the concept of the slave sound/vison and the master sound/vision (which seldom shifts the center of frame of an image either towards left or right as conceived by the retina). Haven't seen much of his work, but Ritwik Chakraborty is an amazing actor, conveying exactly what is desired from him and after a long time, its good to see Churni Ganguly finally 'back on track' with a pivotal role!