Story Line

In the seventy year of the new millennium, Animesh Mitra recollects moments from his youth - his college days, his love and his passions. The days of idealism and desperation, of agony and ecstasy in the midst of a turbulent time, that changed the lives and minds of the youth all over the world.
                       The city of Calcutta has witnessed political turmoil, clashes of ideologies, state terror and mob violence. Young people were up in arms to reject the repressive semi-colonial system inspired by the student movement in France, war in Vietnam and the ultra left Maoist revolutionary movement in the late 1960’s.
                                         Animesh reminisces his love for Madhabilata, a classmate in the University. As their love blossomed, the turbulent times took over Animesh’s love. He was drawn to the armed revolution which was crushed in the matter of a few years. He was arrested and sent to jail as an under trial criminal. But Madhabilata’s love remained like a deep-rooted tree. Amidst his agony and frustration, Animesh sees Madhabilata’s love and resilience as a symbol of revolution.

Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Paoli Dam and Shantilal Mukherjee

The Director’s (Gautam Ghosh) viewpoint

The backdrop of Samaresh Mazumdar’s story has resonance of my youth, my college days, in the backdrop of a turbulent time, both at home and abroad. I thought of walking down the memory lane along with the protagonist without being judgmental on ideology or political line. In today’s hardcore materialistic society, I cherish the memories of a romantic era when youth had expressed, ‘It is time to say our few words, or else the soul will set sail tomorrow.’
History repeats itself with a strong reminder of our age old wisdom.
Conditioned phenomena are impermanent including religion and ideology. Only love and compassion remain bright in our memory, collective or individual recent or ancient.

Anandi Ghosh and Parambrata Chattopadhyay

Principal Cast

• Parambrata Chattopadhyay
• Paoli Dam
• Santu Mukhopadhyay
• Shantilal Mukhopadhyay
• Rudranil Ghosh
• Bratya Basu
• Mousumi Saha
• Anandi Ghosh
• Partha Bandyopadhyay
• Chhanda Chattopadhyay
• Soumitra Chattopadhyay

Parambrata Chattopadhyay

Credit

• Story: Samaresh Mazumdar
• Art Direction: Samir Chanda
• Photography: Indranil Mukhopadhyay
• Additional Photography: Goutam Ghose, Bijay Anand
• Editing: Shuvro Roy
• Sound Designing: Anup Mukhopadhyay, I.D.Babu
• Sound Recording: Goutam Nag
• Make up: Amit Ganguly
• Costume Design: Neelanjana Ghose
• Production Management: Kalyan Dasgupta, Sanu Bandyopadhyay, Surajit Dasgupta
• Publicity Concept & Design: Goutam Barat
• Associate Script Writer: Sanat Dasgupta