It's quite difficult to keep the poetic expression of cinema alive while portraying the realism and rudeness of truth in life. And love is the sole thread to express those poetic emotions that suddenly fill the missing components of life. Director Atanu Ghosh's “Robibaar” is a classic example of that poetic cinema where love reconnects two souls, who are poles apart mentally and ideologically. With some brilliant performances by the protagonists, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Jaya Ahsan and masterly crafted by Atanu Ghosh, “Robibaar” is one of the best Indian movies of recent time and a must watch.
Sayoni (Jaya Ahsan), a corporate law officer, goes out for walk in a lazy Sunday morning and suddenly meets her ex-boyfriend Asimabha (Prosenjit Chatterjee) in a local cafeteria, after a gap of fifteen years Asimabha is a fraudster and they broke up long back and Asimabha got married later. The narrative flows through different shades of emotion on the sunny and cloudy phases of a Sunday, bringing in the aura of past romance between two protagonists – one a law breaker and the other a law implementer.
Jaya Ahsan is a spontaneous actor and she is brilliant as Sayoni. Her character goes through different shades in the movie and those has been portrayed superbly. She has some natural mannerism in her dialogue delivery and it always adds up to her elegance and that has been brilliantly captured by the director Atanu Ghosh. Prosenjit Chatterjee is one of the best actors of Bengali cinema and the portrayal of Asimabha could be considered as one of the best in recent times. Asimabha is helpless on one hand, and on other looking for a shelter in Sayoni and that has been perfectly portrayed by Prosenjit. Cinematography of Appu Prabhakar is elegant and blends nicely with the narrative and Sujay Datta Ray edited the movie in perfect pace. The music of Debajyoti Mishra is classy and lives up to the expectations.
Atanu Ghosh is a National Award wining director from India and he treats his every movie with poetic expression. He loves to portray silence with a unique style and “Robibaar” is a brilliant love story where the silent love reconnects two souls broke apart long back. Both the protagonists Asimabha and Sayoni are respectful to each other's intellectual capabilities but ethically reside on opposite poles. Asimabha is a fraud but intelligent and he feels the absence of the intellectual presence of Sayoni in the mediocrity of the world around him. Both the protagonists are in search of the love they lost long back but kept the thread alive, which the director Atanu Ghosh reconnects brilliantly with subtle touch of emotion in an eventful Sunday (Robibaar), with an aura of nostalgic romance. A brilliant movie and a must watch.
