Bengali Movie-Critic’s Review

Brake Fail Bangla Film-upcoming Bengali Movie

Brake Fail 2009 Bengali Movie-Critic’s Review

In a recent interview, I heard that this movie was completed before Jackpot. So after watching this movie, you are not justified in asking, how can someone who made an entertaining light-hearted comedy like Jackpot make a bizarre and mindless comedy like “BrakeFail”.

The name ,though is quite justified in the sense that the plot moves as haphazardly as a car with failed brakes. What was meant to be a tribute to Hrishikesh Mukherjee turns out to be almost an insult. The main plot revolves around a Hindu car-mechanic (Parambrata) in love with a Muslimgirl (Swastika). But, the main plot leads to a number of subplots, which leads to utter confusion and chaos. Parambrata hams and remains as stiff as a pillar throughout. Swastika looks beautiful, but that is all she manages to do in the entire movie. Even powerful actors like Rudraneel , Saswataand Kaushik Ganguly himself fail to raise above the weak script. Annu Kapoor acts as a surprise package, acts the role of “Papaji” well.

It is awful that in the entire timespan of thisso-called comedy, laughs come only from the woe of elderly couple Paran Bandopadhyay and Tanima Sen.The music (Neel dutt) and cinematography are plain ordinary. The dialogues, instead of making you laugh,makes you cringe. Just pray, Kaushikda’s next movie “Chhaya Chhobi” starring Rituparno ghosh will act as a balmfor all those ,who sat through “Brake fail”. ............