‘Brahma Janen Gopon Kommot’i to ‘Parcel’: Bengali films releasing this March 2020

February offered some of the most-anticipated movies of the year from different genres, and March is not staying behind, bringing a bit of everything for all tastes and ages. Be it Ritabhari Chakraborty’s ‘Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti’ or Rituparna-Saswata’s ‘Parcel’, every movie releasing this month brings in an ample dose of entertainment. So mark your calendar for March movie mania!

‘Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti’ is a dramatic comedy that makes one ponder about the outdated rites and rituals and questions the gender imbalance in society. The story revolves around Shabari (Ritabhari Chakraborty), who is a lecturer and performing artiste. She is into another profession too. She is a woman priest! When a chance encounter with Vikramaditya (Soham Majumdar) at a college function leads to a marriage proposal, she clearly tells the would-be groom about her multiple identities. Her words are misinterpreted and Shabari is forced to keep one important part of her life under wraps due to the stark differences between the worlds she belong to, pre and post marriage.

‘Parcel’ has a non-explicit, realistic and open-ended script. It shows human reactions to certain situations without the reasons being told. Here, Rituparna Sengupta and Saswata Chatterjee play a doctor couple with a teenage daughter. Rituparna’s character Nandini starts receiving her pictures, new and old, in parcels from some unknown sender. This leads to a fear psychosis in her mind and she starts suspecting a few known people around her. Meanwhile, Saswata’s character suffers a setback when a death occurs at the hospital and a crisis develops around whether it was a natural death or was it due to his negligence. These two crises lead to the main crisis in the movie.

Both in his private and professional life, Anirban Sengupta (Parambrata Chattopadhyay) became cornered. Sengupta, a senior crack reporter of a daily, failed to find out any growth path in his career, as he was the victim of the circumstances, precisely victim of office politics. On the other hand, he lost his love Mou Bondopadhyay(Tuhina Das), rather sacrificed his love for journalism, which is not only a mere job but also a passion and a dream to Anirban. Plus, his mother is in death bed. His father was a renowned sports journalist, who died earlier. When Anirban Sengupta felt that he reached the dead end, a ray of hope suddenly came out. He got crucial information on a city murder that took place 16 years ago and he was the first reporter, who had reached the spot at Dalhousie area. A Persian lady was killed. The assailant had pumped a single bullet into her head. The Kolkata Police had closed the file keeping the mystery unsolved. However, after 16 years the new commissioner of police of Kolkata was eager to solve the old riddle. Anirban started receiving chain of information. He took it as his last chance for his comeback. But again, Anirban found a number of hurdles to attain his goal. This time, he received blow from his office itself. He tried his best to look forward but it was dark and black. What happens next leads to some interesting twists and turns.

Joy Sengupta plays a film director who is trying to move out of his comfort zone while making a love story. Thriller used to be his preferred genre once. Since he himself is in a crisis, making a romantic film seems extremely difficult. However, he thinks of a story and starts telling his assistant the story. Suddenly the filmmaker sees a novel by a writer which has the same storyline. What happens next forms the crux of the film. The love story is a simple one and has nothing out of the blue.