Archive for 2010-03-14

Kartik (Vivek Trivedi) is the nephew of Bhabatarini (Shakuntala Barua), the wife of the very rich but very miserly Ramgoti Chakraborty. Kartik looks after Ramgoti’s business interests. Ramgoti and Bhabatarini are childless so Bhabatarini loves very much. But Kartik is in love with Rajani (Simran) who is the daughter of the village astrologer Keshab Haldar (Paran Bandopadhyay). But this man is not happy with his daughter’s choice. He has already arranged a match between Rajani and Ramgoti’s older brother’s son Dibyagati (Premjit). The film ends on the predictable ‘happily every after’ note making no new contribution whatsoever to contemporary Bengali cinema. The only positive note in the film lies in its songs penned by Debaprasad Chakraborty and set to music by veteran music director Mrinal Banerjee. Shankar Guha’s camera work and Jayanta Laha’s editing are in keeping with the film’s inferior quality and weak story. Paran Bandopadhyay does his bit in a cameo. Of the three youngsters, Premjit leaves some impression, Vivek Trivedi in the title role looks good, shows promise but little hard work while Simran with her deadpan expression and voice is no good.

What can one say about a film as dull and as boring as Kartikey Biye? Even the word ‘biye’ meaning marriage, does not carry the argument any further than the title of the film.