Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Kahini

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Jul 3, 2012, 6:45:30 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Kahini

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+Kahini
+1995 105’ col Bengali
+d/p/co-st Malay Bhattacharya pc Movie Mill
+co-p Chandramala Bhattacharya co-sc Shyamal
+c Sunny Joseph m Debajyoti Mishra
+lp Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debesh Roy
+Choudhury, Debashish Goswami, Robi
+Ghosh, Anuradha Ghatak, Suranjana
+Dasgupta, Soumomoy Bakshi, Neelkantha
+Sengupta
+
+
+Innovative debut feature by the TV producer
+and designer Bhattacharya in the tradition of
+Chakraborty’s Kaal Abhirati (1989) and
+Vishwanathan’s Sunya Theke Suru (1993).
+The story, told with a very sparse soundtrack,
+revolves around three characters, a kind of
+intellectual (Chatterjee), a taxi driver and a
+billboard painter, who drug and kidnap a child
+(hanging on to a notion of childhood) and set
+out for the countryside in their blue
+Ambassador car, initiating India’s first explicit
+attempt at a road movie. The genre’s obligatory
+quota of ‘strange encounters’ demarcate two
+major sequences: a villager who has poisoned
+his entire family and is caught before he can
+commit suicide, and the monologue of a petrol
+station attendant. The kidnappers shelter in an
+old house where they unsuccessfully try to
+revive the unconscious infant, which dies,
+causing the trio to disintegrate. A parallel
+theme deals with a peasant family blissfully
+optimistic about finding a cure for their
+crippled son. The film ends with the acrobatic
+rehearsals, in the rain, of a travelling circus
+group introduced earlier as a kind of choral
+motif.
+
+[[Film]]