| Two Bengali films for IFFI 2008 |
| Written by Su | |||||||||
| Thursday, 04 December 2008 18:09 | |||||||||
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For this year's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, only two Bengali films have been chosen for screening. One is in the feature film section and the other for the short fiction and documentaries section. While 25 feature films were selected by the feature film jury chaired by K.N.T. Shastry out of 104 entrees, for the non-feature and short-film category, Anjan Bose, chairperson of the jury released names of 20 films out of 82 entered. Another Bengali film, Bishar Blues, entered the Non-Feature and Short Film category by virtue of being the Best Non-Feature film at the 54th National Film Awards held earlier this year. Remembering Bimal Roy, directed by his son Joy Roy, in English, Bengali and Hindi is also a part of the non-feature section. The two films are Suman Mukhopadhyay's Chaturanga and Abhyuday Khaitan's short film The Shop that Sold Everything. The last is about the close bonding shared by a local shopkeeper and a small boy named Kartik. As Kartik grows up and prepares to go abroad, he stumbles on a toy plane he had got as a gift from the shopkeeper when he was a little boy. Kartik discovers that the shopkeeper is passing through a very bad phase. Local goons are forcing him to vacate the premises. Does Kartik help him? How?Chaturanga is based on Rabindranath Tagore's novelette. It has already been screened at the Montreal International Film Festival. Avik Saha and Campfire Films have jointly produced the film. Subrat Dutta and Joy Sengupta (both from Mumbai). Rituparna Sengupta, Dhritiman Chatterjee and Kabir Suman form the cast. "Chaturanga is about a love caught between conflicting worlds of ideas. Set in Colonial Bengal at the turn of the twentieth century, the film weaves a rich tapestry of crisscrossing desires and moralities. The protagonist Sachish fleets from radicalism to religious mysticism in his search for life's meaning. However, his search leads to disillusionment. He fails to meld his ideals with the powerful presences of two women in his life: Damini, a young Hindu widow, and Nanibala, the abandoned mistress of Sachish's brother. "After a point, Chaturanga becomes a psychodrama of unbelievable cruelty," says a thrilled Mukhopadhyay.
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