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The notion of love as an ailment, a sickness, a disease has been around since time immemorial. The fact that love hurts more often than it soothes has been argued over and over again in countless songs, poems and stories. The forlorn state of the heart and the departure of all rhyme and reason from the mind has been stated as its effects. And almost always, the good old ailment of love has been touted – by such great minds as Plato to Paulo Coelho and others in between – to be one whose seriousness cannot be undermined, simply because it has no real cure. Anjan Dutt’s new film Finally Bhalobasha explores the idea of love from a similar perspective, through three different stories underscored with three ailments — with a fourth one, appearing right at the climax. And while it is a film where it is virtually impossible to dislike even a single actor’s performance, there’s not much to be said about the thread that strings the pearls together.
The film begins with the story titled ‘Insomnia’. At the behest of an unseen mother, and much to the chagrin of an unseen girlfriend, a young man (Arjun Chakraborty) has arrived at a small town and taken up the job of the secretary to a rich industrialist (Arindam Sil). The boss soon turns out to be a violent man with questionable ethics, who wouldn’t bat an eyelid before beating the life out of his wife (Raima Sen). Plagued by the plight of the helpless woman, the young man hatches a plan to help her escape. Easier said than done, though, because as it turns out – several men in the past have tried to do the same. And failed.
In the second story, titled ‘Arthritis’, a fiercely independent and somewhat strong-headed girl (Sauraseni Maitra) heads out into a rough night after a music gig, only to end up in the home of a jaded ex-Colonel of the Indian Army (Anjan Dutt), who literally picks her up from the street in a state of abject intoxication and brings her to safety. Acting cold and distant in the beginning, the girl soon begins to fall for the older man, who seems to be dealing with his own priorities elsewhere. Having never experienced the sort of sensitivity and affection that the elderly man displays, the girl is determined to persuade him, even if that means following him out of town….Click here to read the full story
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