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SATYAJIT RAY FILM SOCIETY BENGALURU, in short SRFSB in collaboration with Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI) is proud to announce the second edition Bengaluru Bengali Film Festival 2018.
To give you a background of the creative project of 2017, the Bengali film festival was organized at Chamundeswari Theatre in Bengaluru. We had screened seven Bengali films and two films in Kannada language. There was a star studded list of eleven dignitaries who came to grace and epitomize the grandeur of the festival. It was also our immense luck that we embraced the presence of Madhabi Mukherjee who inaugurated our festival and glamorized the flavour of our creative project.
In 2018, we have bigger dreams, bigger collaborations and bigger expectations. So tighten up your seatbelt and get ready to embrace the one of a kind cinematic experience and dive deep into the ocean of Bengali Cinema which is making a creative impact in the global arena of film making.
Benche Thakar Gaan is set in an old age home where Paromita, a young gerontologist ends up leaving a lucrative career as a psychiatrist in the city. ln this home she faces her boss Dr. Partho Sinha, as strict disciplinarian, who has built this home for all those who can afford to live well but are not able to live either with their families or alone due to certain circumstances. According to Dr. Sinha, the inmates are here to spend the sunset years of their lies in peace, but Paromita feels otherwise; she believes there is still a lot to live for in the sunset years too. To Paromita, even the seniors have a right to enjoy, and peace can only come when the mind is happy.
An old age home is not where you are thrown out, it can be a home where new bonds can forged even in the later years of life. Benche Thakar Gaan or the song a life is a positive look at age, which to us is just a number, and it’s all in the mind.
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Ghoton, a 12-year old autistic orphan, lives with his overbearing and cruel maternal uncle Gondaria. Into this nightmarish existence of Ghoton enters Poripishi, a fairy who holds a magical recipe that could well solve all of his problems. Will Poripishi change Ghoton’s life for the better and help him find what he has been seeking all along?
Ali, a daily wage earner lives in the vicinity of a primary school despite his wife Fatima working as a construction labour. As fate would have it, Fatima developed an affair with a coworker that caused grave injury to Alif’s faith and longing for her. Meanwhile, in a dramatic turn of events Ali and his neighbours in the hills are forced to spend sleepless nights for the fear of a prowling leopard that came out of the woods. What follows is the hardest fate befalling Ali’s family. Alifa is a saga of human-wildlife conflict competing with basic questions of love, hatred, dreams, and desires, as well as the frailties of human nature and wider social bonding.
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Andarkahini is a saga of womanhood in the correlative context of human relationships and complex society.
Four women. Four variations of relationships. One society with four facades.
Andarkahini is stitched with four stories of different diversities with the core crisis of womanhood. In the film, four women protagonists from four different stories are played by one woman only. Keeping one leading lady common for all the four characters, the film symbolises the very aspect of womanhood as a metaphor.
With stories and different characters, the film travels through various contours of our society to open up the dark hidden aspects of various relationships and their complexities.
The core character always remains a woman; only the colour of relationship changes. At times she is a daughter, at others a sister, a friend, and a wife. With each different character, the story jumps into introspectron of layers of the very relationship and comes out of it with the core value of realisation.
While carrying twist in tales as a pattern of storytelling, each story goes deep into the anthology of questioning the society. Each story has its own genre and taste of mood which get compressed and create a unique flavour of womanhood through the course of the film.
Andarkahini is an introspection of society and its moral value through the mirror of womanhood.
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Cast & Crew
Directed By: Arnab K. Middya
FILM: ROYAL BENGAL RAHASYA
SHORT FILMS:
TOLLYWOODE TARINIKHURO
BHAKTA
ABHINETRI
CHILEKOTHA
Film: ONDU MOTTEYA KATHE
Director: Raj B. Shetty
An introvert Kannada lecturer becomes engulfed in a situation of trouble and desperation after learning that he must get married within a year. His search for a bride leads him on a journey of self-discovery.
Film: RAJKUMARA
Director: Santhosh Ananddram
Synopsis:
An honest man overcomes various obstacles while trying to retain the purity of his character and fulfilling the duties towards his family.
Film: HEBBET RAMAKKA
Director: N. R. Nanjundegowda
Synopsis:
Directed by N. R. Nanjundegowda, this drama has been jointly produced by SA Puttaraju and Smt. Kavitha Raj under the Saviraj Cinemas production banner. Poornachandra Tejaswi has scored the music for this film. Tara and Devraj have played the main lead roles in this film.
Film: AMARAVATI
Director: B. M. Giriraj
Synopsis:
Nowadays, everybody is more conscious about the waste management directly or indirectly. But have you ever thought what happens with the lives of the people associated with manual labour and why only these people who are considered the lower class take up these odd jobs? They generally are people from North Karnataka, Teluguites, or Tamilians. Even today, these manual labourers lose their lives everyday due to lack of adequate safety equipment and medication, which cost us a few hundreds of rupees. It is an ironic sin, that too in this technological age, where we boast ourselves of Make in India, the Mars Mission, numerous startups that develop apps for almost everything, but on the darker side, these manual labourers still get buried beneath us, unnoticed. Sadly, we are living in the paradise of illusions, Amaravati.
The creative eye goes deeper than the mechanics of eyesight. Blind painter Bijon Bose spent much of his life inspiring students by bringing stories to life through his paintings and idealism. His life is interrupted by a proposal to create mural for an exclusive restaurant in the city of Kolkata, a journey that brings young strong-minded painter Tithi into his life. Their relationship unfolds through the lines of the mural, as they struggle between generations and life of philosophies. Bijon’s once clear lines artistic integrity are troubled by Tithi’s realism, as he grapples with his role and responsibility towards the life of his work beyond the brush.
Cast & Crew
Directed By: Saibal Mitra
SATYAJIT RAY FILM SOCIETY BENGALURU,
has been created with the motto of organizing, undertaking, conducting, encouraging and promoting plethora of National and International films to propagate film culture in the city of Bangalore.