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Completed On: 02 Dec, 2019

Director: Mrinmoy nandi

Duration: 26 min 19 sec

Genres: Short

Language: Bengali, English, Hindi

Country: India

Submitted By: Mrinmoy Nandi

Festival Rating 7.8

This film, narrates the story of a young man, who have formed his entire academic career in Bengali Language and have gained PhD in that subject. Suddenly he finds that the entire “Bengali” community as an ethnic group has suffered a loss of cultural values-identity as they have surrendered to the state aided language hegemony, firstly English as a colonial hangover and then Hindi, resulting from the superficial Nation-building objective of the Union Government. Financially, culturally defeated this young man, in order to retard his national, cultural and even religious identity loss, tries to find solace in spiritual practices. He comes in contact with a pseudo-religious preacher, who trains him to meditate and find out about past lives. In the end, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a famous Bengali Linguist, Bengali icon and revivalist of the language appears in front of him and slaps him as a mark of protest for not undertaking the challenge of reversing language loss in his community, while seeking refuge in desultory religious practices.
The cinematic language and the content of the film is political satire and the context is seen as a hyperbole.

  • Director
    Mrinmoy Nandi
  • Producer
    Kaahon Kommunications
  • Writer
    Mrinmoy Nandi
  • Film Type
    Short
  • Genres
    Drama
  • Runtime
    26 minutes 19 seconds
  • Completion Date
    02 Dec, 2019
  • Production Budget
    7000 USD
  • Country of Origin
    India
  • Country of Filming
    India
  • Film Language
    Bengali, English, Hindi
  • Shooting Format
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio
    2.4:1
  • Film Color
    Color
  • Student Project
    No
  • First-time Filmmaker
    No

PlayButton Short Film Festival 2020
India
Chennai
Official Selection

Kalinga International Film Festival 2020
India
Bhubaneswar
Official Selection

South Asian Short Film Festival 2020
India
Kolkata
Official Selection

NexGn International Short Film Festival of India 2020
India
Pune
Official Selection

Siliguri Short & Documentary Film Festival 2020
India
Siliguri
Official Selection

Darbhanga International Film Festival 2020
India
Darbhanga
Official Selection

Kalaburagi International Short Film festival 2020
India
Gulbarga, Karnataka
Semi Finalist

International Open Film Festival
Bangladesh
Dhaka
Finalist

Tagore International Film Festival 2020
India
Bolepur
Audience Choice Award

10th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2020
India
New Delhi
Honorable Jury Mention

Pattaya International Film Festival 2020
Thailand
Pattaya
Best Short Film & Best Editing

Cine-Parbon International Short Film Carnival and Awards 2020
India
Barrackpore
Best Film-1st Runner Up & Best Cinematography

Kaahon Kommunications
India: All Rights

Director's Biography

Qualification:
Bachelor of Science, University of Calcutta
Post-Graduation in Cinematography, Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (SRFTI)

Film Direction
1. Somoyer Janalaguli (Windows of Time) - a feature length documentary
Award: Honorable Mention - Experimental Forum, 2022
Official Selection:
Film Southasia
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
Cinemaking International Film Festival

2. Dhumpaner Opokarita (Smoking blocks...) - a short film
Award:
Cine-Parbon International Short Film Carnival and Awards 2022 (Best Film, Best Story, Best Screenplay)
Official Selection:
International Moving Film Festival
Siliguri Short and Documentary Film Festival 2022
Vindhya International Film Festival Madhya Pradesh
Kalaburagi International Film Festival
Kolhapur International Short Film Festival
South Asian Short Film Festival
International Film Festival of Ahmednagar India

3. PIKLU- a short film
Best Film-1st Runner-Up & Best Cinematography Award, Cine-Parbon International Short Film Carnival and Awards 2020
Best Short Film & Best Editing, Pattaya International Film Festival 2020
Honorable Jury Mention, 10th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2020
Audience Choice Award, Tagore International Film Festival, 2020
Finalist, International Open Film Festival, Dhaka
Semi Finalist, Kalaburagi International Short Film festival 2020
Darbhanga International Film Festival, 2020
Siliguri Short & Documentary Film Festival, 2020
NexGn International Short Film Festival of India, 2020
3rd South Asian Short Film Festival 2020
Kalinga International Film Festival 2020
PlayButton Short Film Festival 2020

4. SHOHORNAMA (Urban shorts)
Special Jury Mention, National Documentary Short Film Festival 2018

5. KHELNABATI (Play Things), Documentary
Silver Palm - Mexico International film festival, 2012
0110 International Digital Film Festival
International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala

6. ANIMAR AAKASH - a short fiction film on gender politics prevails in rural India
Cinephile 2015


Cinematography

SUNDER JIBAN (Rajat Kamal, National Award in 2002, Best Short Fiction Film)


Significant Works as Cinematographer

Documentaries

MURMURS OF SILENCE. A Documentary on Central Library. University of Calcutta
DIRT. An International Film. National Film Board, Canada, Production
SITA KAHINI. (A TALE OF SITA)
CHHINNA MAHAL. A cross-border Independent Film on
Chitmahals of India and Bangladesh
LEGENDS - a documentary film on MANNA DEY. Produced by HMV SA RE GA MA
SHABNAM. 30mins. A Documentary on THE FIRST WOMAN KAZI OF INDIA, for PSBT, India
A Documentary on THE SATRA AHASABHA, ASSAM
URMI-CHANGEMAKER. A BBC series
MARITIME INDIA. A Documentary for a European Channel
AUDREY’S DRESS. A Documentary with DOMINIQUE
LAPIERRE for a French and a Spanish Channel
GHOST OF EMPIRE. A Documentary on the works of famous Irish Sculptor JOHN HENRY FOLEY for HISTORY CHANNEL


Feature Films

ANTAR BAHIR
MAHALAYA
BAROOD
JHUMURA
BASANTA UTSAV
TOBEY TAI HOK
GHENTE GHAW
PA MA GA RE SAA
PURPLE HAZE


Short Film

DOUR (RUN)
SAHORE (IN THE CITY)
POISON
LOVE ITERLUDE
THE WINDOW
SUNDER JIBAN (National Award in 2003)


Activities

Recently completed an extensive research based audio-visual documentation project for Cultural Research Institute, Kolkata on art, culture and crafts of 10 scheduled tribes of North Bengal.

Editor of www.kaahon.com, the leading web portal researching, documenting and archiving art & cultural activities of present and past.

Director's Statement

Cultural politics is the main focus of my films and I believe most of us are going through some struggle deep down in our mind to save our own language or cultural expression (which we all born with) in this Global arena of cultural hegemony. Everybody wants to keep his or her own identity intact. Its a reverse journey of soul to combat the homogeneity developed through the so-called success of Neo-classical Economy.

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