Alik Sukh means unreal happiness. The movie however leaves you with real questions and meaningful thoughts without being preachy. Alik Sukh is the story of a successful gynaecologist Dr. Kinshuk Guha(played by Debshankar Haldar).
Kinshuk and his wife Ramyani( played by Rituparna Sengupta) keep January 22nd very special every year, as it is their wedding anniversary. Ramyani faithfully keeps a record of every 22nd January in her album. Kinshuk plans to gift her a flat this anniversary and goes to the builder's office along with his lawyer to sign the sale deed.
Things keeps getting delayed with the lawyer being to late to the builder going missing for some time. Meanwhile his patient Kobita Mondol ( Sohini Sengupta) starts having post operative complications. The hospital reaches out to him time and again and Kinshuk caught between his desire to sign on the flat papers on his special day and his duty towards the patient tries to resolve the problem through phone and complete the signing as well. Kobita keeps slipping into shock and by the time Kinshuk arrives at the hospital after braving a traffic jam, she is dead. This is the first patient who has died in Kinshuk's care in his career. Kobita's husband (played brilliantly by Bishwanath Basu) and other relatives go berserk on hearing the news of death and start ransacking the hospital. From here starts the story of Alik Sukh.
Kinshuk dismisses Kobita's death as "chance factor" while Ramyani is troubled by it and starts questioning Kinshuk's logic. How they deal with this situation and how does Kobita's husband deal with this situation of his wife's unfair death is captured in the movie.
Kinshuk and his wife Ramyani( played by Rituparna Sengupta) keep January 22nd very special every year, as it is their wedding anniversary. Ramyani faithfully keeps a record of every 22nd January in her album. Kinshuk plans to gift her a flat this anniversary and goes to the builder's office along with his lawyer to sign the sale deed.
Things keeps getting delayed with the lawyer being to late to the builder going missing for some time. Meanwhile his patient Kobita Mondol ( Sohini Sengupta) starts having post operative complications. The hospital reaches out to him time and again and Kinshuk caught between his desire to sign on the flat papers on his special day and his duty towards the patient tries to resolve the problem through phone and complete the signing as well. Kobita keeps slipping into shock and by the time Kinshuk arrives at the hospital after braving a traffic jam, she is dead. This is the first patient who has died in Kinshuk's care in his career. Kobita's husband (played brilliantly by Bishwanath Basu) and other relatives go berserk on hearing the news of death and start ransacking the hospital. From here starts the story of Alik Sukh.
Kinshuk dismisses Kobita's death as "chance factor" while Ramyani is troubled by it and starts questioning Kinshuk's logic. How they deal with this situation and how does Kobita's husband deal with this situation of his wife's unfair death is captured in the movie.
Alik Sukh brings to fore some real issues primarily in the medical profession. It makes you think about the intense competition that we all go through as professionals and how it pushes us to justify our actions. It takes you to the other end of the economic spectrum and shows you how human life after it is gone becomes more valuable as a source of compensation and rebuilding.
Shiboprosad Mukhopadhay and Nandita Roy the director duo have built in layers within this story which makes you think without being too cerebral. The predominant use of closeup technique catches every nuance on the actor's face to create an extraordinary connection with the audience. The screenplay manages to keep you hooked, though few of the scenes between Kobita and Ramyani could have been edited out. The story flows easily and the actors have done a brilliant job.
Rituparna sheds her glamorous image and plays the housewife with a conscience with right amount of vulnerability. Kharaj Mukhopadhay plays the lawyer brilliantly and is a delight to watch. Sohini Sengupta as Kobita is amazing with the correct mix of menace, pathos and despondency. However the movie belongs to two actors, Debshankar Haldar as Kinshuk Guha and Bishwanath Basu as Kobita's husband. Haldar is simply brilliant as the doctor caught between his sense of duty and the mirage of happiness that he is chasing. Basu's face mirrors his anger, helplessness, bewilderment, acceptance and finally resignation through the movie without too many dialogues. Soumitra Chatterjee has a small but important role.
Shiboprosad Mukhopadhay and Nandita Roy the director duo have built in layers within this story which makes you think without being too cerebral. The predominant use of closeup technique catches every nuance on the actor's face to create an extraordinary connection with the audience. The screenplay manages to keep you hooked, though few of the scenes between Kobita and Ramyani could have been edited out. The story flows easily and the actors have done a brilliant job.
Rituparna sheds her glamorous image and plays the housewife with a conscience with right amount of vulnerability. Kharaj Mukhopadhay plays the lawyer brilliantly and is a delight to watch. Sohini Sengupta as Kobita is amazing with the correct mix of menace, pathos and despondency. However the movie belongs to two actors, Debshankar Haldar as Kinshuk Guha and Bishwanath Basu as Kobita's husband. Haldar is simply brilliant as the doctor caught between his sense of duty and the mirage of happiness that he is chasing. Basu's face mirrors his anger, helplessness, bewilderment, acceptance and finally resignation through the movie without too many dialogues. Soumitra Chatterjee has a small but important role.
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