In the year 1905 Lord Curzon came to inaugurate Durga Puja in North Calcutta Mitra Bari. He presented a PEN to their family. It was a pen made of gold … and Lord Curzon perhaps used it to sign the papers of partition of Bengal.
The local people protested HIS presence in front of Mitra Bari with fire and arms. And in this milieu, Panchubrata – the then head of the family, forgot where he hid the pen.
On his death bed he gave mere clues to his brothers to find the Pen. But no one till present date could crack the clues to find the ‘Historical Pen’.
At present, it is necessary to find the Pen because Mitra bari has fallen upon bad days and they need the money from auctioning their pen to save the huge establishment and to continue the joint family Puja. The family is in hard debt.
The story revolves around the family members, especially Pupu (Poulami Das)– the eldest daughter of this generation and her childhood friend Tatu (Saheb Bhattacharya). They try to crack the clues and save the house and their Puja.
However the news spreads in all the dailies that a historical valuable Pen is in Mitra Bari and men with evil mechanisms sneak into the house to steal Lord Curzon’s Pen.
The result is a laugh riot in this comic noir that both thrills and leaves you in splits. Will the puja be saved? Will Pupu-Tatu be successful in their amateur sleuth apprenticeship? Will the bad guys be punished? Will Mitra bari get back its former glory?
The answer to all these questions lie in the intensely crafted Curzon er Kalam. Director Souvik Mitra said: “This is a family movie. The kind we used to get in the last century– shoparibare dekhar chobi. It has both thrills and chills wrapped in a flippant funny jacket. It is a perfect movie just after Durga puja, to relive the moments.”
Pictures by: Pratik Bhattacharya
