SVF

Vinci Da review: Engaging, hard to ignore Rudranil and Ritwick’s brilliant acts

Director Srijit Mukherji’s Vinci Da delivers a mixed experience in terms of expectation, but manages to engage.

Srijit Mukherji’s Vinci Da is thoroughly engaging and delivers some memorable cinematic moments as well. A story of an honest and talented artiste and a psychopathic criminal has been juxtaposed with a dedicated cinematic composition, with optimum intensity in the suspense elements. Yet, it is the crisis of the make-up artiste that strikingly appears as relatable and real than the narrative of the criminal until the climax where the highly moralistic artiste is reduced to a selfish common man, who stays unaffected by all the crimes until someone of his own acquaintance becomes victim of it.

The film can boast of two hard-hitting performances by Rudranil Ghosh and Ritwick Chakraborty. When the two actors are on screen together, it is hard to take eyes off either of them. While Ghosh’s character of Vinci Da, the honest and extremely talented artiste, is better written, it is Chakraborty who lends life to his character, which is weird, cold-blooded and psychotic with a terrible sense of morality and justice with his seamless performance.

An ardent admirer of Leonardo Da Vinci, Vinci Da is an artiste and has mastered the skills of make-up since his childhood, inspired by his make-up artiste father. He is in love with Jaya (Sohini Sarkar), a simple girl, who lives under the strict supervision of her father.

He loses his opportunities to work in the film industry for his uncompromising attitude, but he peacefully keeps on practising his art, without much expectation, until he is visited by a man called Adi Bose (Ritwick Chakrborty). Bose deludes him with an offer to taste his expertise on prosthetic make-up on himself and eventually, as Vinci Da succeeds, the latter finds himself trapped in a plan by Bose that turns his life upside down. The progression of the story seems fine till now, only Vinci getting immediately convinced of Bose’s offer to be from the film industry irks a bit.

It is the way Bose manipulates Vinci seems horrific, shrewd and engaging. The delineation of Vinci’s crisis of choosing between the hunger of a make-up artiste and paying the price with sacrificing humanity is done with a lot of patience and it grows organically with the plot progression through Vinci’s internal conflicts and helplessness.

Bose too has a journey since his childhood that depicts the origin and growth of his psychopathic tendencies, sharpness of mind and desperation. His notion of crime and justice is dubious and it contains the element to baffle the audience. The way each time he designs his plan to deliver justice appears sickening and shocking as well….Click here to read the full story