The entire cast delivers superbly, frame after frame. What sets Ebar Shabor apart from other recent Bengali detective films is its exploration of the human psyche through all the characters. Fast-paced and hauntingly slow at times, the music is well-suited to a Bengali James Bond-ish movie, and carries the twists and turns of Shabor’s investigation well. The film’s background score by Tabla maestro Bickram Ghosh deserves a special mention. And he has just finally taken off on his own. He shares great chemistry with his own sidekick (played by Subhrajit Dutta), and the quips on the latter’s lack of command over English, are quite funny. And why wouldn’t he be? A stellar career graph aside, Chatterjee has trained under the best of on-screen sleuths, Feluda, in the role of Topshe on the small screen. There are skeletons in the closet and dirty linen, but then the best of thrillers have them, and this adaptation from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s detective story, Rwin, does not disappoint.Ĭhatterjee is a good fit as Shabor, who is three parts detective, half part maverick and half part humane. The suspects range from Mitali’s ex-husband (Abir Chatterjee), a bank employee whom she was forced to marry by her father, and who later falls in love with Mitali’s cousin, Joyeeta (Payal Sarkar) her seemingly psychotic ex-lover (excellently portrayed by Ritwik Chakraborty), who was frustrated and betrayed by her her friend (Rahul Banerjee) who had a childhood crush on her and needs her money, too.
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