This Bangla movie of Indranil Roy Choudhury is of children but not for children. Indranil, through the character of "phoring" has explored the journey of the young boy from the innocence of adolescence to the complicated world of the adults. The story is told with a lot of simplicity and is bound to bring you back a memory from your school days.
Phoring ( Akash ) is a boy of 15 who is in the early rung of adolescence who is gawky small town boy struggling with the realities of life. An physically abusive father, inability to do well in school and poverty continue to add to his miseries. But none of these is successful in deterring his highly imaginative mind from fantasizing. Phoring is like the ugly caterpillar stuck in a pupa and dying to emerge to explore the world as a beautiful butterfly. He find companionship in his best friend Lattu ( Saurav ) with whom he shares his fantasies
Life changes for Phoring with the arrival of Doel Mitra, his new history teacher. Doel, a graduate of Presidency college with modern ideas wakes up the sleepy little town. She notices the spark in Phoring and takes him under her wings. She starts to give him private tutions at her house.
Phoring basks at the attention being bestowed on him by Doel. This proximity to her stirs up confusing feeling in Phoring He starts to fantasize about her. His focus keeps getting diverted to the occasional glimpse of her bare legs and he sees red at the mere mention of her boy friend.
But Phoring's happiness does not last too long and his world comes crashing down when Doel suddenly disappears under a cloud ambiguity.
This movie is simple and well made and is bound to stir up some small little memories from school days covered in layers of dust.
