| Herbert chosen for Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, has chosen Suman Mukhopadhyay's award-winning debut film Herbert, for ten screenings in its Contemporary Asian Films Screening Programme in December this year. Based on a novel by Nabarun Bhattacharya, the film features Subhashish Mukherjee, Bratya Basu, Sabyasachi Chakravarthy, Lily Chakravarty in the acting cast. Herbert narrates the kaleidoscopic saga of Herbert Sarkar (Shubhashish Mukhopadhyay), an idiot savant in Calcutta who incites the wrath of the International Rationalist Society with his successful business enterprise, "Dialogues with the Dead." Rife with allusions to classic Hollywood and to directors from Satyajit Ray to Jean-Luc Godard, Mukhopadhyay's debut feature is an astounding, encyclopedic parable: part magical-realist fable, part allegory of cultural imperialism. Shot in flashy reds and twilight blues that recall the Technicolor of MGM musicals, this wittily self-reflexive film features a remarkable lead performance by Mukherjee as the film's visionary madman.
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