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"Time Masters" is a true animated SF masterpiece. But as other reviewers have stated here, it is a "film d'auteur", which obviously means some people might not like it. Feel free to rent it if you don't want to take any risk, but chances are you will run to buy it after.

A complete disappointment!
The story as stated by Mircha, the romanian student of eastern philosophy back in 1930s about his relationship with the daughter of his professor, is the main content of the novel "La Nuit Bengali". The movie tried to move the story to a modern time, and in that process did a horrific distortion of everything including the local culture and customs, the mindset of a modern Bengali girl, and the parental control exercised by learned parents!

The cinematography is quite bad, given that it was filmed only in 1980s when the cinematography has been improved 100 folds from 1930s. If the time frame of the movie was in 1930s, then that kind of cinematography could have been acceptable, probably, just for the sake of the time frame matching!

The local language spoken by the actors were terrible, the producers should have found a better solution to this. The leading actresses were not Bengali, and it was an English film, so there was no reason to put Bengali dialogue for them, but the director did, and due to lack of efficient directorial supervision, they came out horrible and wrong.

The film also shows the lack of imagination and research in the comtemporary Bengali psyche and mentality and behaviour. If the story had been set in 1930s, the incidents following the discovery by the parents about the relationship of their daughter with the foreigner could have been believable, but in the current context, it has been completely ridiculous, and stupid and it has become a caricature rather than a film.

The music was also pretty bad, the set and choice of location has been quite horrible. The director should have seen some of Satyajit Ray films before even venturing into this kind of a project.

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Having seen Time Masters on tv many years ago, which was dubbed into English. I have, sofar, been unable to track down a copy (DVD or VHS) of this version, (ie. with the english dubbing). Any ideas out there?.
The film itself was great with a fair few interesting deviations along the way, (though I would not have enjoyed it as much, if the tv version had been with english subtitles).
In all, a film I shall, for one, never forget.