Creative Quotient
It’s all about getting your timing right. That is what our hero Madhu has. His job as medical rep that calls for constant tours into all parts of the city and beyond gets him involved with a pretty little girl though he has his loving wife of four years, Priya, on the side. Who is on the ‘side’ and who is ‘upfront’ should have been a tough job but Madhu is ingenuous. He keeps a small diary to note down the dates, timings, hours and names of which lady he is going to spend time with when and how, in his personal code no one would be able to decipher. Neither woman is aware that the other exists and the girlfriend does not even know that Madhu is married. She fixes up a date for a registered marriage. But God has other plans. In a spontaneous act of rescuing a woman from bag-snatchers as he waits for his bus, Madhu gets hurt in the skirmish and is hospitalised. When he regains consciousness, his sole purpose is to hide that there are two women in his life. He ropes in close friend Ranjeet to help him in his endeavour. Two suspicious policemen from two different police stations keep visiting the two flats, much to the chagrin of Madhu and Ranjeet till the cat is finally out of the bag. But in typical filmy style, everything ends happily ever after because Madhu persuades the girlfriend, madly in love with him, to marry Ranjeet! Can you believe this?

Technical Expertise
Prosenjeet as Madhu, is extremely refreshing minus the glamour and chutzpah he wears in his other films. Arunima Ghosh as the girlfriend is a refreshing change from the same old faces we keep seeing on the Bangla screen. Paoli Dam as the wife offers good visuals but is self-conscious to a fault. Paran Bandopadhyay and Ramaprasad Banik as the two policemen and Kalyan Chatterjee as the UNI photographer who comes to click pictures of Madhu for his ‘heroic’ act and gets chased out, are a scream.
Hoccheta Ki is a rollicking, rip-roaring exercise in continuous actions and chases and double entendre dialogues that sometimes get a bit bawdy. Chatterjee has kept songs to a minimum to prevent interruptions in the flow of comic action. But it is Rajatabha Dutta as Ranjeet who steals the show from everyone else. His senses of timing, lightning change in facial expression are a treat to watch. Rana Dasgupta’s cinematography is flat right through while Tabun’s musical score is nothing to write home about. Amitava Dasgupta’s editing meets the challenge of the jump cuts that dot the film. Hochheta Ki will never win any film awards. Nor does it carry the old Basu Chatterjee stamp of brilliant music, a tight screenplay and refreshing histrionics held together by a strong storyline the audience could totally identify with. Time pass.