She is created with such wafer-thin imagination that the character emotes in beats of ‘happy’, ‘sad’ like the actor is part of some school play. To create intrigue, she smiles mysteriously looking at nowhere even in the middle of the night, establishes her fondness for Tagore by singing his songs all the time. The character subscribes to the template of a femme-fatale with such commitment that all we see are tropes. In REKKA, Mushkan is a cliche and a stereotype. But that they never translated into anything memorable further speaks of his limitations which, in a series, becomes more difficult to hide. His interest in female characters is written all over his body of work, noticed more evidently in films like Nirbaak (2014) and Begum Jaan (2017). That Mukherji headlines this adaptation is both unsurprising and a misstep. A premise such as this mandates intricate character-building of the female protagonist to shape the perspective without altering the reading. The novel is at once a potent critique on how society continues using witchcraft to justify success of women and the lurid way human perversity can intersect with such assumptions. He takes a universally resonating theme - the curious case of an enterprising woman - and turns the preconceived notions about her on its head by proving them true without making them right. Granted it leads with a showy title but Uddin does more. Published in 2015, REKKA was instantly popular. All of them have one thing in common: they were supposed to meet a woman in Sundarpur, the small town situated at the border of India-Bangladesh. In between young men from the city go missing. To know more, he strikes a friendship with local police informer Atar Ali (Anirban Chakraborty in an impressive turn), a man convinced Mushkan is a witch.
But he is more drawn by Mushkan, curious about what unfolds inside her house and not just the restaurant. One day Nirupam Chanda (Bose), a “journalist” comes to the place, seemingly to do a story. Her almost other-wordly charm enchants patrons, police officers and MLA(s) alike. People from far and wide come to Sundarpur to eat. Very little is known about Mushkan Juberi (Azmeri Haque Badhon) except that she lives with a house-help and runs an eatery.
RABINDRANATH EKHANE KOKHONO KHETE ASEN NI BOOK SERIES
Adapted from Bangladeshi author Mohammad Nazim Uddin’s novel of the same name, Rabindranath Ekhane Kokhono Khete Asenni ( REKKA) is a nine-part series that centers on a restaurant, where as the name suggests, the bard had never come to eat, and its equally intriguing owner.
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