The Branches of the Tree

Director tried to overcome the prophet BS here, but could not do much. The old Ray anted to make his beliefs and idealism co-existing with the newcomers. If I have something good to say, the star studded cast - Soumitra Chatterjee, Mamata Shankar, Dipankar Dey, Lily Chatterjee, Ranjit Malick, Haradhan Banerjee, Pradip Mukherjee - is one of the good things we get here. Also, the theme of strangers meeting in place - John Carpenter, Quentin Tarantino - did well for this. I found this during re-watch, this was one of the first films of our current film star Soham Chakraborty, just as rememberable as his horlicks licking role in 'Chhoto Bou'.