Based on Bibhuti Chatterjee's fight with cancer, the director duo of Shibu-Nondita has brought to screen a glorious tale of hope, emotion and redemption. Konttho is a triumph of poignant story telling .The film explores the trials and tribulation of Arjun the RJ who has lost his voice due to cancer, and his struggle to resume his career. The film vividly portrays the depression, anger, denial of Arjun after losing his voice and parallely the impact of him on his family who were supportive and sympathetic .
Konttho is rich but not overindulgent on emotion i.e devoid of synthetic emotions and overdamatic situations.The originality of the film depends on the simple dialogues which is one of the strongest department of this Shibu-nandita duo especially the dialogues of Romila the voice therapist of Arjun .Her dialogues have been written with enviable simplicity. The performances have been pillars of the film.
Paran Bandhopadhay and Koneenica Banerjee are effective in their short roles.Paoli Dam with her usual grace has made her role as a grieving, sensible and supportive wife more relevant.
Shiboprasad has been at his best portraying a large range of emotions effortlessly,he made the role of Arjun his own with acute precision.He makes his character speak with silence and convey with his expressive eyes.
As I already said,the dialogues written for Romila the voice therapist are very relevant and an example of excellent dialogue writing,but that would have been not so much effective if Jaya Hasan was not chosen to play that role. She was radiant and has left no stone unturned to bring life to the character she is playing.The performance of Jaya Hasan has pioneered the second half of the film.The film's credit lies in the approach of a sensitive topic with sheer simplicity.
The film's technical department has done a commendable work and so has the sound mixing department.Konttho is the most mature film from the director duo and really a film worth remembering.
Review of Konttho
