Bengali cinema gets serious

It seems like Bengali cinema is slowly diversifying. Moving away from the boy-meets-girl stories and routine fight sequences, Tollywood is now getting serious. Filmmakers are experimenting with plots and actors don't mind taking some risks either.

Psycho-thriller The Game – 90 Ghanta, produced by Swapan Ghosh and jointly directed by Sushanta Pal Choudhury and Sougata Roy Burman is one such offbeat movie. For Ghosh it isn't a first. He has produced films with unconventional stories like Shilpantar, Abhinetri, Sampradan and Kaantatar in the past.

Speaking about his latest project, he says, "This film has a strikingly different storyline. It tells the tale of George (Tota Roy Choudhury), Rishin (Jishu Sengupta) and his wife Mayuri (Swastika Mukherjee)." When George takes up a contract killing assignment from Rishin, he doesn't know his target and client are the same person. Rishin is a schizophrenic who wants himself dead. On realising this, George is torn between his professional ethics and a genuine concern for a fellow human being. Things get complicated when George comes to know Rishin's wife Mayuri is his ex-girlfriend. Mayuri tries to convince him against killing her husband. Meanwhile George and Rishin have also bonded over a common passion, music. The film explores the dynamics of this complex scenario.

Ghosh hopes to release this film soon. Whether the public accepts it or not however remains to be seen.