MIRZA which was the most hyped and awaited movie of the year 2024 in Bengali Cinema, disappoints majorly in its other departments apart from the technical excellence and performances of both Ankush and Koushik Ganguly. In real terms, Ankush is the only person in the entire film who is able to generate applause in the theater through his well conceived portrayal of a Gangster but he failed to match laughter scene with his weak comic touch. There are a lot of flaws in the movie, but I didn't expect much from a Bengali massala movie so it was rather OK. The Duration is too long, 2: 45 minutes is huge you start feeling bored, next the acting of the lead actor Ankush as well as others were more like a joke, it was pretty much OK but his role doesn't give a lot of emotions. The writers couldn't decide whether it's nonsense entertainment movie or a dark action thriller,and the result is mix.
Now coming to the discouraging points of the movie, first of all it was a pretty bad idea of its producers or the company to make such a big movie with a huge budget on an already known story almost copy from a well known Bollywood hit. Secondly, right from the first scene itself, debutant directors give too much emphasis on his disgusting shot taking, camera angles, frames, slow motions, action and overall look of the project in order to make it a breakthrough film. And in this process he gives minimum attention to the other comparatively more important aspects of the film resulting in a big mistake. For instance, he perfectly makes sure that his characters look good on the screen but fails to generate any kind of chemistry in the fellow characters. It was strange to see that there is no interest to develop a proper story. Actually there is nothing to tell.
The next point is regarding the use of "A Deliberately Added" comedy track in the film which has no connection with the plot or story progression of the script from any angle. Fourthly the film progresses in a very slow manner which makes the viewer uneasy post intermission. In other words, since the viewer already knows what is going to happen next, so everything should have been shown in a fast and entertaining manner in order to keep everyone hooked on to the screen. But with a lazy kind of screenplay, its quite a lengthy film which required severe editing of scenes and less slow motions taking much time.
The music is another major disappointment in the film as we all expected much more from the team of Aneek Dhar and Ishaan Mitra. Evidently they have earlier given us much better and enjoyable tracks in their individual solo albums than the songs featuring in the soundtrack of MIRZA. Truly speaking I really couldn't enjoy any other track in the entire film. Also the background score has been used aggressively, even in the places where it was not required.
