Again within the 70s, Kolkata confronted a tumultuous length. As the remainder of India handled the Emergency, West Bengal used to be witnessing any other revolution — the Naxal motion. Many famous motion pictures of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen captured the unrest of the ones instances and bore testimony to what came about throughout the length.
Now, filmmaker Birsa Dasgupta has made up our minds to inform a tale set by contrast backdrop. His newest movie ‘Hawa Banduk’ (Air Gun) is a love tale set in opposition to 70s Calcutta with the focal point at the Naxal motion within the town. Birsa, alternatively, has no longer used the phrase Naxal in his paintings. “I’ve used the phrase progressive as an alternative of Naxal. Many years again, Naxal had a undeniable romanticism hooked up to it. However now, it’s a much-maligned phrase. In a similar fashion, the Congress, which used to be in energy in 70s Calcutta, has simply been known as energy or khomota within the movie,” says Birsa.
The movie tells the tale of the coming-of-age of Ruku, a youngster from a middle-class circle of relatives in Baranagar, stuck on the threshold of manhood. The darkish instances had been encapsulated within the persona of Biloo, a neighborhood goon who’s at loggerheads with the progressive Shankar da, Ruku’s idol. Ruku’s global of rainbows comes crashing as politics, jealousy and violence engulf him. The metaphorical air gun turns into a grim truth with gunpowder plastered in all places the partitions of Ruku’s favorite town.
সত্তরের সেই উত্তাল সময়, প্রেম ও বন্ধুত্বের পাশাপাশি বিপ্লব ও হিংসার আবহে পাল্টে যাওয়া শহর ও তার তরুণ তরুণীদের পারস্পরিক সম্পর্কের গল্পই জীবন্ত করে তোলে ‘হাওয়া বন্দুক’। স্মরণজিৎ চক্রবর্তীর লেখায়, বিরসা দাশগুপ্তের পরিচালনায় আমাদের নতুন ছবি… #HawaBonduk %.twitter.com/LL19o9aS0R
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But love blossoms amidst the upcoming darkness. On one hand is the affection tale of Shankar da and Mohor whilst at the different is the budding romance between Ruku and Jhinook. In the end comes that fateful day when the lives of those 5 persons are modified endlessly. Birsa says, “‘Hawa Banduk’ is a non-public story of intense love and true friendship, which is bombarded by way of the converting local weather of the days.”
The forged of the movie is fascinating. “It’s a mix of the most efficient of mainstream and choice movie actors,” says Birsa. Whilst his elder daughter Meghla is debuting within the movie (she performs Jhinook), Rahul Arunoday Banerjee, Riddhi Sen (Ruku), Kaushik Sen, Bidipta Chakraborty, Ankush Hazra and Oindrilla Sen additionally play essential roles.
The movie will cross on flooring mid-September or October.
