THE PARCEL: This movie is a social commentary and a satirical outlook on the sad jack-in-a-box state of affairs of the doctors in Kolkata. The initial few reels has a Tabu-starrer Astitva hangover but the movie is not a copy-and-paste job. The female protagonist Rituparna Sengupta is shown as a schizophrenic and her husband Saswata Chatterjee (also a doctor) soon follows suit while trying to solve her. Sensitive and brilliant, this movie has Rituparna don a non-glamorous avatar and reiterates the audience’s faith in her as a thinking man’s actor. At a time when most older actresses have retired or are running parallel to parallel cinema, Rituparna’s production house has come up with a script that shows her due diligence (read: hard work) and commitment to rise above above mediocrity. In a career spanning almost three decades, from dancing with Mithun to Manda Meyer Upakhyan she has come a long way and she also has a long way to go.Superlative performances, a brilliant yet coherent script might make this movie a festival favorite as well as a desired watch amongst the classes and the masses.
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