Open Tee Bioscope Bengali Movie
A bland salad, with all the right ingredients and no extra frills tastes ordinary. But Open Tee Bioscope is that bland salad that without any frills leaves such a strong aftertaste that it gets difficult to appreciate anything made frilly with spices. Time travel may seem just a theory, but Director Anindya Chatterjee took this quite seriously and took us back to a time that was bland but memorable. The era when life was simple and everyone cherished the simplicity of life.
Open Tee Bioscope is a potion that helps us take a peek into the lost horizons of yesterday. Much like the peek a boo bioscope, Chatterjee opens the lid and sings his tune and we begin following the pied piper through the alleys of our past. We begin chasing the football with our para gang. We rise up to strength to fight our para club for truth.
Foyara (Riddhi Sen) is a North Kolkata lad, he returns home after being thrown out of his boarding school. An annoyed mother Baisakhi (Sudipta Chakraborty) begins to find a way to impart discipline in her son's life. And like every middle class mother, she too dreams that one day her soon will be grow up to be a good human being.
Foyara's stay here brings him close to his roots. He befriends local kids, becomes the pigeon for his friend and writes and delivers love letters, they smoke their agony's and celebrate their little victories with 'shalpata ghugni' ( Yellow peas curry). Foyara and his friends are a reminder of our long lost 90's. The time when roads had lanes and bylanes, when the local 'dokan' were the road markers, when 10 rupees in the pocket meant the world, when a 'Kulfi' stick tasted better than every 5 star meal and when communication was limited to written and spoken words.
With Shoojit Sircar as the creative director and the debutante Anindya Chatterjee as the director, could we have expected anything less glorious? A free flowing ballad, a beautifully lyrical narrative Open Tee Bioscope creates that cloud space that archives all our childhood memories. Camera, locales, interiors and story everything are a perfect example of the word 'simplicity'.
Mentioning the actors separately will be doing injustice to team Open Tee Bioscope. The bioscope would not have been this delightful without anyone of them. Sans grease, the child actors are genuine and innocently bring back an era that was terribly innocent. Actors Rajatava Dutta, Sudipta Chakraborty and Kaushik Sen are those weathered pillars who maturely hold together Open Tee Bioscope.
A chunk of our past, which we were sure, is lost and just remains as debris under the truth of the post global world is the reality of Open Tee Bioscope. Watch and watch again, but you will still want to watch for more. After all, which mortal wants to part with their memories?
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