Director tried to overcome the prophet BS here, but could not do much. The old Ray anted to make his beliefs and idealism co-existing with the newcomers. If I have something good to say, the star studded cast - Soumitra Chatterjee, Mamata Shankar, Dipankar Dey, Lily Chatterjee, Ranjit Malick, Haradhan Banerjee, Pradip Mukherjee - is one of the good things we get here. Also, the theme of strangers meeting in place - John Carpenter, Quentin Tarantino - did well for this. I found this during re-watch, this was one of the first films of our current film star Soham Chakraborty, just as rememberable as his horlicks licking role in 'Chhoto Bou'.
Review of The Branches of the Tree
