Parambrata’s ‘Abhijaan’ makes it to London Indian Film Festival Team Roadshow Films on their LIFF honour, focusing on human stories that connect with common people and more Arindam Chatterjee | | Published 17.06.21, 12:09 AM
The London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) has selected two works by the Calcutta-based production house Roadshow Films for display in their 2021 edition Parambrata Chattopadhyay’s film
Abhijaan and National Award-winning documentary Swimming Through The Darkness, directed by Supriyo Sen and produced by Aritra Sen. Roadshow Films was formed in 2016 by the renowned actor-director Parambrata, the internationally acclaimed documentary film-maker Supriyo Sen and the engineer-turned-content creator Aritra Sen. Since then they have been associated
A chat with Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee on his latest venture The short film Home is about women sharing their ecstasies, uncertainties, solitude and friendships
The short film
Home, directed by interdisciplinary artiste Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee, is about “women sharing their ecstasies, uncertainties, solitude, libido and a friendship with oneself”. Inspired by a poem by Arundhathi Subramaniam, the film starring Sudipa Basu, Sohag Sen, Sohini Sarkar, Aparajita Adhya, Bidipta Chakraborty, Chandreyee Ghosh, Debjani Chatterjee, Tuhina Das, Ratasree, Sauraseni Maitra, Paramita Saha, Suparna Datta and Subhasree Patel is a string of images and conversations in silence that builds up and even deconstructs the verse. A chat with Sujoy who wrapped up the shoot of
Do you have a must-do thing that you have to do on the first day of shoot?
I am not a firm believer of superstitions so I do not have a particular thing that I do. But I do need a good night’s sleep before the first day. No one wants to turn up on the first day of shoot of a new project with groggy eyes and yawns.
How’s your mood on Day One of shoot?
Usually I am very calm on the first day. This is because one cannot let panic set in among the team members at the onset of a new shoot. It is like opening the batting in a Test match. A calm start is needed so that the effect of the new ball fades. Then when it stops to swing you start playing your shots.
Aritra Sen decodes ‘Nokol Heere’ ‘Here Damayanti digs beneath the apparently transparent crime and uncovers dark secrets’ Arindam Chatterjee | | Published 16.03.21, 04:14 AM
Detective Damayanti (played by Tuhina Das) is back! And this time she will not let anything get in her way! In
Nokol Heere, streaming on Hoichoi, Damayanti investigates a case where Dipanwita (played by Rajnandini) shoots her husband to death. But her father believes that she cannot be a cold-blooded murderer. Produced by Roadshow Films in association with Emveebee Media, the series is created and directed by Aritra Sen and Rohan Ghose. A chat with Aritra.
Why pick this particular story to make into a series?