FATAFATI:Set in a small town of West Bengal, this superbly entertaining movie is a cross between “Dum Lagake Haisha” and “Mean Girls”. There is a slant on Madhur Bhandarkar’s “Fashion” too. There is a worldwide uproar against obesity-being fat will kill you, rob you of youthly pleasures and be subject to bullying and body-shaming. Open Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, home delivered flyers-people are screaming for your attention and money promising you the moon-diets, pills, exercises, and believe it or faint, magnetic buttons. The weight loss ads are more than get rich schemes. Abir Chatterjee has the author backed role and yes, he can even kiss a piece of wood and make it look real. Ritabhari is superb and acts real, true to the skin of the character. There are addorable Bengali moments in the movie, the blow-hot blow-cold equation between the mom-in-law and the bouma and the amiable relationship between the brother-in-law and boumoni. The screenplay is crisp and fat-free without even a dollop of margarine. The dialogues are engaging and the eponymous track ” O Phullora” is the best soundtrack of the lot. I found shades of “My Sulu” too in the movie.
And the movie also conveys the message that wearing flats is cool even for petite women. The climax is uplifting and heartwarming keeping with Hollywood trends and brings hope for women obsessed with weight loss and achieving a zero-figure and ready to dish out two lakhs per month to Rujuta Diwekar or read her superficial books (“Don’t lose your mind, lose your weight” etc) who could not alter the physique of the billionaires like the Ambani scions.
Women have a propensity to gain weight-post pregrancy, post menopause or due to hormonal imbalance, bad genes or simply unmindful eating and irregular lifestyle. This movie teaches us to accept our body type and move on to better pursuits and accomplishments.
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