Mary, Benny and Mini have promise but never become fully formed individuals in their own right.Ĭhitrangda looks ravishing, I loved her styling, her sexy nighties and pretty saris, and Ronith Arora is so huggable that I would pay to watch a poster of him on your wall, but these are not sufficient reasons to root for their characters as it gradually becomes clear that there is not enough of them to go around. The titular protagonist is not the only one who suffers from sketchy writing. The in-depth character development that was Kahaani’s hallmark is nowhere to be found in Bob Biswas although, apart from credits for the story (Sujoy Ghosh), screenplay (Sujoy Ghosh) and dialogue writing (Sujoy Ghosh and Raj Vasant), a separate credit has been given – to Aniruddha Chakladar – for “character development”. That question, it turns out, is never answered.
The foremost among them is this: how and why did nice, diffident Bob metamorphose into a conscienceless murderer-for-hire? With the help of DoP Gairik Sarkar’s sombre palette and the script, Diya efficiently builds a world of intrigue with enough question marks scattered around the plot to sustain interest. Added to this mix is a drugs racket in the city of Kolkata where Bob Biswas is based, and characters from Bob’s earlier life who variously nudge, force or aid him to do things he did not realise he was capable of. Mini is stressed out by college entrance exam preparations, Benny is being bullied in school and Mary’s boss at work is a sexual predator. So that’s the happy foursome: Mary (played by Chitrangda Singh), little Benny (Ronith Arora), the teenaged Mini (Samara Tijori) and Bob. There he meets the fourth member of their family: a daughter.
He has a wife and son – he knows that only because they pick him up from hospital and take him home. Bachchan) is a not-so-eerie, apparently gentle soul who has just woken up from a long coma following a near-fatal accident and has no recollection of his past. In 2021, Bob as played by Abhishek Bachchan (credited here as Abhishek A.
So not only do the three leads deliver remarkable performances, but you come away from the film remembering even Saswata Chatterjee playing the destined-to-be-iconic Bob Biswas, the eerie undercover contract killer whose total screen time would not add up to many minutes.” Actors for even the tiniest roles have been chosen with affection for the writers’ vision. Nine years after that Vidya Balan starrer created waves at the box office, here at last comes the spin-off that has been crying out to be made ever since: Bob Biswas. The new film is written and co-produced by Sujoy, and directed by debutant Diya Annapurna Ghosh, his daughter.īack in 2012, this is what I wrote in my review of the original: “ Kahaani is one of those rare Hindi films that marries intelligent casting with a wonderful script. Sambha from Sholay, Kachra from Lagaan, Bob Biswas from Kahaani … when characters who are barely in a film’s story remain memorable, you should know you have watched something special.
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