The midnight song
A review of the critically acclaimed Assamese movie "Maaj Rati Keteki" (2017). The critically acclaimed movie Dead Poets Society (1989) has a scene that shows English teacher John Keating (Robin Williams) asking his students to rip out the ‘introduction’ chapter from their poetry textbook. In that chapter, the author had tried to measure poetry on a graphical scale while rating it based on two questions. “Excrement! That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard! We're not laying pipe! We're talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand?” This is precisely what comes to mind while speaking or writing about a film as splendid as Maj Rati Keteki. The quality of a movie can neither be measured quantitatively nor can its perspective be described aptly without hurting the total sentiment that it manages to create. It is what it is. Maj Rati Keteki, written and directed by Santwana Bardoloi, is what one might say, a momentous event in an other