Soukarya Ghoshal, the director of the widely praised film Rainbow Jelly in 2018, has come back with Bhootpori another whimsical representation of horror and comedy that bears resemblance to Leela Majumdar’s children’s fictions.
Secondly for a young protagonist as in Rainbow Jelly, Bhootpori also features Surja played by debutant Bishantak Mukherjee. However, this time around it’s not about cooking but sleepwalking at night. So his mother Shilalipi (Sudiptaa Chakraborty) takes him to their ancestral house during Durga Puja hoping he would rest and recover there. The house hides many secrets including the legend of Kalo Thakur (Shantilal Mukherjee), a spiritual leader who used to live here and haunted forest nearby.
But out of curiosity Surja goes deep into the jungle where he finds Bonolota (Jaya Ahsan), a friendly ghost whom he befriends. She tells him that she hasn’t slept since her death so he decides to help freeing her soul. He also meets Makhon (Ritwick Chakraborty), a kindhearted thief who becomes his guide on this journey.
In addition, Bhootpori gets its inspiration from Bengali literature where ghosts are friendly or mischievous sometimes both together. As such one may recall conversations between Barun and Nidhiram Sardar in Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Gosainbaganer Bhoot while reading through some parts of Surja and Bonolota’s talkings. For example when Surja search through different old furniture stored inside one single room or unearths tunnels dug by Makhon’s forefathers as secret getaways for thieves which crisscrosses village after village could remind us those days we spent flipping pages of Anandamela among other magazines with such tales.
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