Review of movie III Smoking Barrels

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Rating:2.5/5

In the first story, engineer Anuraag Dutta (Indraneil Sengupta) finds a 14 year-old girl Janice (Shiny Gogoi) from Manipur, armed with a pistol, sitting in the back of his car and asking him to drop her to the city of Guwahati. The second story shifts the audience’s focus to the alarming issue of growing drug usage in the region when young college dropout Donnie (Siddharth Boro) gets involved with a cross-border drug cartel. This is followed by the story of a Bangladeshi immigrant Mukhtar (Subrat Dutta), who gets drawn to elephant poaching, owing to extreme poverty.

This indie film has made an honest effort to put forward the problems of the otherwise neglected region of the country, but the execution is painfully draggy and the first two parts make no sense whatsoever. The sensitivity of the subjects have been portrayed in a comical way and the fact that the first two films feature novices, make things only worse for director Sanjib Dey. Barring Subrat Dutta, the actors have rendered mediocre performances. It is a pity that a seasoned actor like Indraneil Sengupta was underused.