General Information
Completed On: 12 Oct, 2025
Duration: 1 hr 24 min 45 sec
Genres: Experimental, Fiction, Mockumentary
Language: Bengali
Country: India
Submitted By: Anjanabha Roy
Festival Rating
Oindrila is a professional photographer suddenly met Bodhi one of the great but underrated film director of her time. Being a fan girl Oindrila wanted to know, what was the reason that Bodhi had chosen a complicated way of film making. Bodhi explained her in the time of genocide a film director can't ignore his or her political duty for mankind. Oindrila realize that this age needs much more voices like Bodhi or else day is not too far that this city of joy might witness a genocide like Palestine. Parallelly this film also speaks about todays unemployment issues and other urban crisis incase of love, human relationship crisis. ANDROPOLIS is a cinematic protest against what happening in GAZA.
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DirectorAnjanabha Roy
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ProducersSudakshina Sarkar Roy
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ProducersTapadhan Roy
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WritersAnjanabha Roy
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CinematographyAnjanabha Roy
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EditingAnjanabha Roy
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Original Title Track & End TrackAnjanabha Roy
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CastsSritama Dey
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CastsSayantan Mukherjee
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CastsSumi Bose Chowdhury
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CastsBasudha Nandy
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CastsBratati Banejee
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CastsSweta Mitra
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Creative DirectorPratik Bhattarcharjya
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Associate Director & BTSSagnik Banerjee
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EP & Production DesignSudakshina Rakshit
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ProductionMrinal Sen Cineplex
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Film TypeExperimental, Fiction, Mockumentary
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GenresExperimental, Drama, Post Globalization film
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Runtime1 hours 24 minutes 45 seconds
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Completion Date12 Oct, 2025
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Production Budget70000 USD
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Country of OriginIndia
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Country of FilmingIndia
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Film LanguageBengali
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Shooting FormatDitigal
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Aspect Ratio1:90:1
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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First-time FilmmakerNo
Director's Biography
1992, January 16. He was born at Malda, a small home town in West Bengal, India. He completed his master degree from Visva-Bharati university established by Rabindranath Tagore. He directed his first short film when he was perusing his academic degree. The Separation was his first film based on the history of partition on 1947. Then he made The Freedom, Fetish, The Girlhood, Before The Dawn...Night, The Pure Soul and last but not the least Letter to The Lime Light. His film continuously has been showcased in various international film festival like (The Separation) Global Youth Film Festival, Lakshmipur, Bangladesh, 2018; Global Lift Off Session, February, 2020. (The Freedom)2nd Asia International (Wenzhou) Youth Short Film Exhibition, October, 2016; 22 Kolkata International Film Festival, 2016. (Fetish)Global Lift Off Session, November, 2019. (The Girlhood) Global Lift Off Session, October 2019; First Time Film Maker Session, February 2020. (Before The Dawn...Night) The 8th China International Micro-Film Festival, 2018; 2nd South-Asia Short & Documentary Film Festival, Bidhannagar Film Society, 2019; The Lift-Off Session, 2019; Monthly Indie Shorts, 2020; Dumbo Film Festival, 2020. (The Pure Soul) Best Screenplay, Direct Monthly Online Film Festival, 2020; Special Screening, Online Film Festival by Bidhannagar Film Society & EZCC, 2020; Finalist, Venice Shorts, 2020; Best Editing, Independent Asia-Pacific International Film Festival, 2020; New York Tri-State International Film Festival, 2021; Finalist, Rotterdam Independent film festival, 2021. (Letter to The Lime Light) Roman Prisma Awards, 2020; Global Lift Off Session, 2020; First Time Filmmaker Session, 2020; Direct Monthly Online Film Festival 2020; Nominee, Cult Movies International Film Festival, 2021. His last film The Vanquished awarded Pigeon D'Or in Luis Bunuel Memorial Award, 2023. He also got critic choice award in Virgin Spring Film Festival and outstanding achievement award in Tagore International Film Festival for The Vanquished. His film The Lady & A Montage won many international awards along with BEST SHORT FILM(Main Category) in EDIPLAY international Film Festival, FRANCE, BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST EDITING, BEST SILENT FILM in WORLD FILM CARNIVAL, SINGAPORE and BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST DIRECTOR in 8&HALF FILM AWARDS in 2023. He is the film director from India who does not believe in visual story telling but believe in deconstruction of visual narratives. His Film The City Called Kolkata won best international feature film in Paris Cine Fiesta, Best international narrative feature film in Nexus international film festival, best narrative feature in Toronto International Filmmakers' Festival, best narrative feature in London Indie Film Festival. Best feature editing in London Woman Film Festival. His last film A FABLE BEFORE APCALYPSE won various awards in various film festivals like 1992, January 16. He was born at Malda, a small home town in West Bengal, India. He completed his master degree from Visva-Bharati university established by Rabindranath Tagore. He directed his first short film when he was perusing his academic degree. The Separation was his first film based on the history of partition on 1947. Then he made The Freedom, Fetish, The Girlhood, Before The Dawn...Night, The Pure Soul and last but not the least Letter to The Lime Light. His film continuously has been showcased in various international film festival like (The Separation) Global Youth Film Festival, Lakshmipur, Bangladesh, 2018; Global Lift Off Session, February, 2020. (The Freedom)2nd Asia International (Wenzhou) Youth Short Film Exhibition, October, 2016; 22 Kolkata International Film Festival, 2016. (Fetish)Global Lift Off Session, November, 2019. (The Girlhood) Global Lift Off Session, October 2019; First Time Film Maker Session, February 2020. (Before The Dawn...Night) The 8th China International Micro-Film Festival, 2018; 2nd South-Asia Short & Documentary Film Festival, Bidhannagar Film Society, 2019; The Lift-Off Session, 2019; Monthly Indie Shorts, 2020; Dumbo Film Festival, 2020. (The Pure Soul) Best Screenplay, Direct Monthly Online Film Festival, 2020; Special Screening, Online Film Festival by Bidhannagar Film Society & EZCC, 2020; Finalist, Venice Shorts, 2020; Best Editing, Independent Asia-Pacific International Film Festival, 2020; New York Tri-State International Film Festival, 2021; Finalist, Rotterdam Independent film festival, 2021. (Letter to The Lime Light) Roman Prisma Awards, 2020; Global Lift Off Session, 2020; First Time Filmmaker Session, 2020; Direct Monthly Online Film Festival 2020; Nominee, Cult Movies International Film Festival, 2021. His last film The Vanquished awarded Pigeon D'Or in Luis Bunuel Memorial Award, 2023. He also got critic choice award in Virgin Spring Film Festival and outstanding achievement award in Tagore International Film Festival for The Vanquished. His film The Lady & A Montage won many international awards along with BEST SHORT FILM(Main Category) in EDIPLAY international Film Festival, FRANCE, BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST EDITING, BEST SILENT FILM in WORLD FILM CARNIVAL, SINGAPORE and BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST DIRECTOR in 8&HALF FILM AWARDS in 2023. He is the film director from India who does not believe in visual story telling but believe in deconstruction of visual narratives. His Last Film The City Called Kolkata won best international feature film in Paris Cine Fiesta, Best international narrative feature film in Nexus international film festival, best narrative feature in Toronto International Filmmakers' Festival, best narrative feature in London Indie Film Festival. Best feature editing in London Woman Film Festival. His last film won several awards in various film festivals like 1992, January 16. He was born at Malda, a small home town in West Bengal, India. He completed his master degree from Visva-Bharati university established by Rabindranath Tagore. He directed his first short film when he was perusing his academic degree. The Separation was his first film based on the history of partition on 1947. Then he made The Freedom, Fetish, The Girlhood, Before The Dawn...Night, The Pure Soul and last but not the least Letter to The Lime Light. His film continuously has been showcased in various international film festival like (The Separation) Global Youth Film Festival, Lakshmipur, Bangladesh, 2018; Global Lift Off Session, February, 2020. (The Freedom)2nd Asia International (Wenzhou) Youth Short Film Exhibition, October, 2016; 22 Kolkata International Film Festival, 2016. (Fetish)Global Lift Off Session, November, 2019. (The Girlhood) Global Lift Off Session, October 2019; First Time Film Maker Session, February 2020. (Before The Dawn...Night) The 8th China International Micro-Film Festival, 2018; 2nd South-Asia Short & Documentary Film Festival, Bidhannagar Film Society, 2019; The Lift-Off Session, 2019; Monthly Indie Shorts, 2020; Dumbo Film Festival, 2020. (The Pure Soul) Best Screenplay, Direct Monthly Online Film Festival, 2020; Special Screening, Online Film Festival by Bidhannagar Film Society & EZCC, 2020; Finalist, Venice Shorts, 2020; Best Editing, Independent Asia-Pacific International Film Festival, 2020; New York Tri-State International Film Festival, 2021; Finalist, Rotterdam Independent film festival, 2021. (Letter to The Lime Light) Roman Prisma Awards, 2020; Global Lift Off Session, 2020; First Time Filmmaker Session, 2020; Direct Monthly Online Film Festival 2020; Nominee, Cult Movies International Film Festival, 2021. His last film The Vanquished awarded Pigeon D'Or in Luis Bunuel Memorial Award, 2023. He also got critic choice award in Virgin Spring Film Festival and outstanding achievement award in Tagore International Film Festival for The Vanquished. His film The Lady & A Montage won many international awards along with BEST SHORT FILM(Main Category) in EDIPLAY international Film Festival, FRANCE, BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST EDITING, BEST SILENT FILM in WORLD FILM CARNIVAL, SINGAPORE and BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST DIRECTOR in 8&HALF FILM AWARDS in 2023. He is the film director from India who does not believe in visual story telling but believe in deconstruction of visual narratives. His film The City Called Kolkata won best international feature film in Paris Cine Fiesta, Best international narrative feature film in Nexus international film festival, best narrative feature in Toronto International Filmmakers' Festival, best narrative feature in London Indie Film Festival. Best feature editing in London Woman Film Festival. His last film A FABLE BEFORE APOCALYPSE won several awards in various film festivals like SYDNEY GLOBAL CINE CARNIVAL, DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS, TWILIGHT TOKYO FILM AWARDS, CALCUTTA INTERNATIONAL CULT FILM FESTIVAL, PARAMOUNT CINE CARNIVAL etc. His art is much more complex and much concentrates on human psychology rather than common emotional events of life. His art is much more complex and much concentrates on human psychology rather than common emotional events of life. His art is much more complex and much concentrates on human psychology rather than common emotional events of life.
Director's Statement
If you are making film only for mare business when the childhood of a nation witnessing a traumatic genocide, don't claim yourself an artist or film director. You are either a ring master or a clown of a circus. May be you call the circus, "Society".

