outlookindia.com – Trina Nileena Banerjee
Starring: Rituparno Ghosh, Indraneil Sengupta, Jishu Sengupta, Raima Sen
Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Rating: ***
Arekti Premer Golpo disturbs you at many levels. For one, there’s always the sense of a deeper film lurking in the background, even as the screenplay struggles to keep several life stories and two different time-frames in balance. Gay director Abhiroop Sen (Rituparno) is in a relationship with his cinematographer Basu (Indraneil Sengupta). Together, they set out to make a docu on yesteryear jatra actor and female impersonator Chapal Bhaduri (who plays himself in the film)…