ANTAHEEN, a Bengali movie,dubbed in English as "The Endless Wait", speaks about our eternal loneliness. It explores emptiness, which is a pain we always feel with in us but never understand the reasones. It is a eternal unrest which we always hide from the ordinary world, its not sadness neither sorrow. It seethe us slowly, but never burst. When we realize it's too late.
In the back drop of Kolkata , Antoheen is a concert about ordinary peoples feelings. Their lives are like some actors.Cops are chasing crooks. Journalists chasing scoops. Rahul Bose plays a police officer who quotes Jim Morrison,"This is the end", as he make arrests. Radhika Apte, a TV reporter out to unearth a land grab scam, calls herself a 'investigative' journalist.They keeps themselves busy in their profession and thus they tries to forget emptiness of their lives. But it's when the harshness of daylight gives way to soft candle-light,they open up their true selves. They log on and chat. In the virtual world, they opens comes into real selves by hiding their identities remains hidden.
Director Anirudha Bose deals with an abstraction like loneliness with rare clarity. And he dose so with the help of a group of excellent executors. A sensitive script by Shyamal Sengupta and sharp editing by Arghya Kamal Mitra and skilful camera work by Abhik Mukhapadhyay. You can almost taste the mist clinging to window panes. Set to Shantanu Moitro's music, these images create some magical moments.
As for acting, Apte is credible, Bose is convincing. Veteran actors Aparna Sen and Sharmila Tagore fit comfortably into their roles as television executive and unmarried aunt respectively. But it's Mita Vashist, in her tiny role as the embittered wife of a business tycoon, who stands out. the films lyrically, like a beautiful song, with silences conveying more than words.
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