Shob Charitro Kalponic

The film swirls around a poet, Indranil and his attractive wife, Radhika (Bipasha Basu). Indranil is reckless while being a genius and Radhika is constantly picking up the pieces of their life behind him. His recklessness drives her in to the arms of her colleague and thoughts of divorce enters her mind. But the sudden death of Indranil takes the decision out of her hand. She soon starts re-discovering her relationship with her husband when a publisher asks her to finish one of his works. There are fantastic performances all around including Ms.  Basu for a change. But the standout is Sohag Sen as the maid, Nador Ma who stands like a rock next to Radhika. Another masterpiece from Rituparno Gosh.

Rating: * * +

Race

There are 2 guys and 2 women - we go through all 2 guy-girl combinations between the 4 of them and eventually 2 outwit the other. Complete shite.

Rating: *

Corporate

A Madhur Bhandarkar film that tries to bring the world of corporate politics to the common man. It centers around the tug of war between two companies in the food industry with Nishi (Bipasha Basu) as the central character who uses every trick in the book to help her corporation. But finally karma catches up with her...

The plot could have worked but poor execution causes it to fall flat on its face. The wooden acting all around did not help either. Bipasha looks stunning through out the flick, but all she can manage is a constipated look in place of emotion. The saving grace are the two gossiping peons who appear sporadically through the movie.

Rating: *