Paris-based Michelin star chef Dev D (Ritwick) returns to Kolkata after 13 years to tend to his ailing mother (Mamata). And from her hospital bed, his mother throws a life-changer at him — to treat her to a maacher jhol he had cooked as a teen.In times when every other filmmaker is busy holding up mirrors to society (little realising that no one ever sees ugliness in their reflections) Maacher Jhol is refreshingly different. It’s a slice of life with dollops of Bangaliana and a liberal sprinkling of the right spices. But that’s not the film’s core strength. Pratim D Gupta has cooked a continental story that would perhaps taste just as good even if made in Swahili.Maacher Jhol 2017 Movie Download.
I guess that’s why we can overlook minor stuff like that misplaced ‘T’ when Dev D (Ritwick) wishes his French girlfriend, Simone (Kaya) bonne nuit (good night). That apart, Ritwick has done a pretty decent job of speaking complete sentences in French.What is refreshing about the film is its no-nonsense air — it’s totally nyakamo-free and devoid of antel monologues. The characters go about life like most of us do — blissfully detached from the Bengal that lives out of a jhola. And like most of us, they seem to learn from life’s ups and downs — something embodied by Paoli’s character, Sreela. The dialogues, too, are crisp, unpretentious and at times, rib-tickling.
True, the climax could have been a bit more elaborate, and not as abrupt as it seems, but that doesn’t mean that Maacher Jhol ends without justification. Each relationship has been more or less well-defined, though the narrative takes its own sweet time to unravel the myriad strings Dev D had broken when he’d abruptly left Kolkata to chase his dream of becoming a masterchef.