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Subtitle in English.    Director: Suman Mukhopadhyay Writers: Suman Mukhopadhyay (screenplay), Nabarun Bhattacharya (novel) Stars: Subhasish Mukherjee, Lily Chakravarty and Sabyasachi Chakraborty Genres: Drama Details Country: India Language: Bengali Release Date: 3 March 2006 (India) Filming Locations: Calcutta, West Bengal, India Storyline: Charlatan or Clown? Innocent or Insidious? Terrorist or Trickster? There are indeed many ways of describing Herbert Sarkar -- a forty year old crank who thinks that he can talk to the dead. Herbert grew up in North Kolkata, feeding on the charity of relatives, and being the butt of local jokes. He declares one day that he has received a message in a dream that has told him where his long dead cousin Binus diary is hidden. People are surprised and amused. But when this prediction proves to be true, Herbert becomes a local sensation. He sets up a roaring business called "Dialogues with the Dead" for three years and for the first time in his life, earns money and the respect of others. However, his luck runs out when the International Rationalist Society declares him a fraud and threatens to turn him over to the law unless he closes shop. This deeply affects Herbert and he commits suicide that very night. However, his celebrity power increases to unprecedented levels the day after his death. After his body is put inside the electric cremation chamber, and the switch turned on, the most unbelievable thing happens. The incident hits the headlines as a posthumous terroristic act, and a high-level police inquiry is launched to find the mystery behind it. The film begins at this point and follows the trajectory of the inquiry, flashbacking into the hidden corners of Herberts quixotic life into his lonely growing up years as an alienated orphan, his ill-treatment at the hands of his cruel cousin Dhanna, his only tragi-comic love affair, his unwitting involvement with the underground Maoist Naxalbari movement during the turbulent seventies, and his business of speaking to the dead in the globalized marketplace of the early nineties. The film depicts, with a rare blend of empathy and irony, the efforts of a gifted mans constant struggle to adapt to his changing surroundings and his efforts to gain love, friendship, and community. Based on Nabarun Bhattacharyas novel of the same name which won the highest literary prize in India in 1997, Suman Mukhopadhyays debut feature Herbert is a deeply moving and artistically accomplished motion picture full of profound laughter, pathos, and humanity. User Reviews 'Herbert', the eponymous film, trails in a slow, but minute, flight the life of the protagonist along with the city (Calcutta) he lives in touching down at several sensitively socio-cultural and socio-political spots on the body of both the city and autistic Herbert's mind. The city, too, along with the protagonist, becomes a character as its transformation from Calcutta to Kolkata, so to speak, is drawn with the eyelashes-brush of the savant-dimwit. Being orphaned at an early age, mistreated by his abusive cousin since then, being made to run errands for all and sundry, and consequently alienated, his chatter may be incoherent and chaotic, but, that too is the plight of the city of the 1970's when the Naxalite movement gathers momentum sucking many students into its fold. He, too, becomes an advocate, though passive, of Maoist Communism that he learns by rote from his nephew. In the mean time his chatter attains a reverential status with the impulsive support of his local boys and he starts a brisk business of communicating with the dead until a bureaucratic Rationalist Society intervenes with a threatening finger. Quite elusively, yet amazingly, as if in a daze, we feel the tone of the film change from the sepia of the past (60's) to the technicolour of the present (90's) and congruously morph the scenario of the city and the protagonist's restlessness – engendered by his misplaced intellect. Moving like a pendulum from past to present, the sequences from different time periods bring to the fore the eventful life of the city and its souls – both social and alienated. The protagonist and his language cannot be understood with the aid of semiology. But his meaningless babble (for example 'Cat, bat, water, dog, fish') turns on the ignition of the lexicon-vehicle of meaninglessness that runs on every way of the city. In this mess the minuscule, but expanding, references to concrete defining meaningfulness that we find are 'Guerrilla Warfare', Carlos Marighella, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Charu Mazundar, clips from 'Battleship Potemkin' and several other references. They tell upon the city and also give its accurate picture. The only thing that comes out as the pure essence of freedom and expression out of the debris of the decomposed city is the love interlude – Herbert's ephemeral relation with the next-door girl who casts a mesh of fascination on Herbert. After his death, the film gains a sudden velocity. The blast inside the incineration chamber is posthumously attributed to him for his supposed Maoist links. This changes all a priori held beliefs regarding Herbert Sarkar. He is no more a nincompoop; no more an alienated person; no more a neglected fellow growing up on the mercy of his relatives: but rather a man with hidden Maoist links; with innovative anti-establishment techniques; with wit extraordinaire who can blow up a crematorium even posthumously. Thus, the prediction of a disaster foretold, in Herbert's terms, follows from Chaplinesque idiosyncrasies to a dreaded and intelligent Naxalite doyen. Quite magnificently, and staggeringly of course, the ghosts of the 1970's Naxalite Movement, quelled to extinction by the 'establishment', are resurrected with the aid of the man (Herbert) who communicates with the dead. Directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay and adapted from Nabarun Bhattacharya's novella of the same name (winner of Sahitya Academy in 1997) the film 'Herbert' (too, winner of the Lankesh Debut Director Award) is a period piece of exquisite and classical proportions, in a nut-shell. Sharing WidgetTrailerScreenshots      |
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