Bengali cinema has already gone through a make-over, but a few more steps towards perfection would not hurt. On one hand they dish out the commercial fare, on the other hand they extract gems from the everyday life. However, when it comes to dealing with relationships, Bengali films are still predictable and stereotypical.  “Aparajita Tumi” is no different.

The movie circulates around the multidimensional relationships, especially based on love, a dying love story where love is gone long ago, and then, some lust. Based on Sunil Gangopadhyay’s “Dui Nari Haate Tarobari”, the movie incepts with the primary characters: Pradip (Prasenjit), Kuhu (Padmapriya) and Ushahsi (Kamalini). Pradip and Kuhu are married and have two kids. Ushashi is married to Ranajay. The couples reside at San Jose. Pradip steals glances at other women, it’s his juvenile oddities that Kuhu is unable to understand; she is too busy running after her kids. Ushashi, has serious complications in her life. She has left behind her chances of being an actress. And is stuck at USA with a disinterested husband and no kids.   Eventually, Pradip and Ushashi get along with each other, but soon Pradip confesses to Kuhu about his extramarital affair. Kuhu immediately packs her bag and moves to her mother ( Tanushri Shankar). She says that she does not want to know who the other woman is, because that won’t be enough the control the damage caused.  Kuhu moves to New York to make some grounds of her own and stumbles onto her ex boyfriend Yusuf; who claims, that he still loves Kuhu. Kuhu succumbs to one night with Yusuf, and soon after, is thrown out by Yusuf.  At that time, she is informed that Pradip is down with a brain tumour. As she returns to take care of Pradip, Ushashi comes to her to confess. What after that? Is it mortally possible to nurture all your dear relationships at one time? Watch out and find yourself.

The film is somehow inspired by the bollywood film “Kabhi Alvida Na kehna”. But thankfully the couple does not exchange thing does not take place here! Keeping all predictability and familiarity aside, the cinematography and making of the film must be appreciated. It has got the effect of a cozy romantic slick Hollywood love story. The music is another part where Shantanu Moitra leaves no place for complaints.

Prasenjit does magic with his role as Pradip. The stolen glances at other women in restaurants, succumbing to the seduction of the other woman, nostalgia for a tea stall left behind in Beltala and the piano tune he struggles to complete – is all Prasenjit and perhaps originally so. Both the newcomers have done real good job as well.

Characterization for the film has been the most important factor here. Each character is glowing in its own light of individuality; be it Prasenjit, unable to cut the strings of nostalgia, or Ushashi, beautiful but under confident, or Kuhu, who wffortlessly becomes a caring wife without showing any resistance.

Relationships are perhaps like that only…ego, anger, frustration-all fade away in moments, as easily as they take place as the moments of unhappiness. The film flows like a poetry, but the rhythms will seem known to you;as if you have heard it before. But in it’s comfortable flow, one will listen till the end.

Relationships that succeed and fail, moments which come and go, faces with and without masks- all these stuff the movie. “Aparajita Tumi”, at a glance, is a story of mixed feelings-all too familiar to you.