Kolkata: Kapadia Payal ‘per night from knowing anything’, which won the Oeil D’Or award for the best documentary at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has a strong kolkata connection.
Ranabir Das, former Don Bosco Park Circus student and a documentary and a documentary editor, has been running the Cannes Red carpet in addition to the director.
Moinak Bose, former Scottish Church College and St Xavier’s Collegiate School student, is a movie designer while the Theater Actor Gobardanga Bhumisuta Das has done his voice.
Kapadia, Ranabir and Bose are alumni of the Indian Institute of Film and Television while Bhumisuta graduated from the National School of Drama in 2019.
It was explained by the Director as a “Found Footage Film”, the documentary was played as part of two weeks in the Director ‘section, which was running Next to the main festival.
In the documentary, L, a student in India, wrote a letter to his lover who was alienated as he left.
Through these letters, we look at a glimpse of the drastic changes that occur around it.
Combining reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasy and anxiety, amorphous narratives revealed.
Explain the experience of his Cannes, Ranabir said, “More than a red carpet, only at the festival is an extraordinary experience, more than the months of limited movement.
It’s fun to watch my master’s movies I have idolized and so many new filmmakers Interestingly.
What’s more special is to present your film to the audience that really appreciate and hungry for the cinema.
“Ranabir’s parents still lived in Kolkata.
Anik Dutta director down to Facebook to share how Ranabir is a “favorite model” after he bought his first SLR and was the youngest crew member of the youngest ‘Bhobishyot Bhobishyot’.
“Ray can’t go to accept Palme d’or personally in 1956 but he would love to see a boy from his city walking red carpet in Cannes,” Dutta wrote on Facebook.
Touched by this comment, Ranabir said he learned a lot while working on ‘Bhootyyot Bhobishyot’.
“It was the first long feature film I was working on.
I studied most of the basics of cinema, both in terms of form and practice, from Dutta and Sinematographer Avik Mukhopadhyay,” he said from Marseilles where the documentary film was filtered on FID.
Incidentally, the L character is Bengali, but he lives in Pune.
Bhumisuta, who has made a sound for L, can not get to Cannes.
Especially related to Gobardanga Naksha, he has acted in production such as ‘Binodini’ and ‘Shubha’ and also works in the short film ‘Princess’ Anuradha Limb and Devashis Makhija.
“It’s not like an ordinary documentary.
I went to Mumbai for 10 business days.
My voice is partly in Hindi and partly in Bengali.
Instead of a professional voice over the artist, they want someone who can relate to their experiences,” he said.