Directed by Deb Medhekar and an outstanding performance by Danny Denzongpa, Bioscopewala a simple movie which is based on Rabindranath Tagore’s short story “Kabuli wala” is a must watch masterpiece.
Starring Danny Denzongpa as Bioscopewala, the movie has a simple yet beautiful story of a girl Mini(Gitanjali Thapa), who has to travel back home from France, to collect remains of her father. Her father was going to Afghanistan for unknows reason when his plane crashed.
It turns out that this wasn’t the only thing she didn’t know, her father had obtained custody of an old friend as well, the bioscopewala (Danny Denzongpa).

 

The Bioscopewala has a dark past which is unknown and left for the mini to uncover all the mysteries of not just his past but also the reason for her father traveling to Afghanistan.
Awarded 3.5/5 stars from Times of India and 8.7/10 on IMDB, this is a story of the relationship between Mini(Gitanjali Thapa) and her Father and later on with her dad’s friend the Bioscopewala ( Danny Denzongpa).

A beautiful story showing deep and loving relationship of father and daughter,
with cast members nailing their respective performances, perfectly balanced themes with background and fantastic music combined with perfectly shaped pieces of a puzzle which fits together to form a masterpiece,
with a story revolving around Danny Denzongs’s character Bioscopewala makes him start of the movie and his outstanding performance shows off his experience, and his versatility also asks a question why did he played the villain for such long time or to perfectly frame the issue why was he offered roles of villains?

 

 

Being a short story movie wraps up at 1 hour, and 40 minutes even then the film doesn’t fail to tie all loose end of stories and doesn’t feel rushed or forced.

Director Deb Medhekar in an interview to Indian express said “I came in at a level where story writer Sunil Doshi’s core idea had him as a man who operates a bioscope. In his version, the man ran a cinema back home in Afghanistan that closed down, and he came to India. Personally, I am obsessed with metal film and commentary on cinema through cinema. When I read Sunil’s version, I saw in it a great opportunity.

 

 

Bioscopewala became a way of cinematic storytelling, and the narrator is a 30-year-old documentary filmmaker Minnie, who is not the same little girl anymore.”