Unish Kurir Golpo

It is quite simple to make a film like Unish Kurir Golpo which means,the story of teenagers.

Director: Gautam Satvaya

Screenplay: Lovely Mukherjee

Cast: Noorjahan,Vickey Dev,Amar Mirza,Kuheli,Shabnam,Raj,Sujit,Mrinal Mukherjee,Bodhisatta Majumdar,Soma Chakraborty and others

It is quite simple to make a film like Unish Kurir Golpo which means,the story of teenagers. Because calling it a film is vesting it with a label it does not deserve. The director picked up a bunch of girls and boys at random,with one boy and one girl fitting into the demands of the hero and heroine respectively,hired the services of an unwilling cameraman and an even more unwilling boom man and sound van operator and took them all on a trip to Mondarmoni,a lovely beach resort in the outskirts of Kolkata.

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The youngsters were asked to ad-lib their lines to fit into a loosely assembled screenplay. But they were facing the camera and probably each other for the first time and this amateurish trip turned out to be a massive misadventure for the audience. The first half of the film is about the dumb-looking young boys and the X-factor-lacking young girls planning,preparing and then venturing out on a picnic where the prime factor is love affair gone sour between Risha (Noorjehan) and Rupom (Vickey Dev.) Thankfully,the director spares us from spelling out the details of why the affair went sour. Rupom is sandwiched between shunning the advances of another girl Rohita (Kuheli) and trying to win back Rishas love.

The second half is about Risha. She goes missing after a heated argument with Rupom with two witnesses from the group having seen them argue. Rupom comes back with blood on his trousers! Everyone is convinced that he has murdered Risha. However,the director does not know how to handle this new thriller twist as he does not know how to handle the love-gone-sour twist as well. So he made Risha come back,escorted by a doctor who rescued her from the beach where she fell unconscious after being hit by a speeding car – yes,you heard me right right on the sands of the beach! The film would have had a delightful climax had the doctor fallen in love with Risha at first sight and the two walked into the Mandarmoni sunset,hand in hand!

The group has an effeminate male character who lusts after a handsome hunk hinting at his alternate sexual orientation. But he is the butt of his friends jokes and this is an insult to gays. Some dialogues are risqué and are in bad taste. Risha is the only one with worried parents,portrayed by veteran actors Bodhisatta Majumdar and Soma Chakraborty who keep looking helpless and confused. Milon Mukherjee as a serious police officer has a good role for a change though a brief one. Noorjahan looks older than her boyfriend and just cannot act. Vickey as Rupom,is the sole saving-grace of the entire crowd of youngsters.

The editor has cut a long and stupid story short by jumping from one scene to the next with shots of the Mandarmoni sea,the sunset and the moonlight as bridges that do no justice. The sole star rating this film deserves is reserved for the director who managed to make a bakra out of the unsuspecting producer who did not have an inkling of the non-film he was bidding his money on. Go to your books for a change!