Title of film : SUN GOES AROUND THE EARTH
Director Name : ARIJIT BISWAS
Cast & crew :
Producer : PAWAN KANODIA
Editor : SAURAV SARANGI
Cast :
Synopsis : KC Pal is an iconic figure in Kolkata. Over the last 40 years, he has relentlessly written Surjo Prithibir Chaedike Ghore (Sun goes around the Earth) on the walls of Kolkata. Once employed with the army, PAL thought he has discovered a proof that will lay to rest the debate that no longer existed. Leaving the army, spending all his savings, deserted by his family, living in a makeshift tent on the roads of Kolkata, often chased and manhandled by people, he remains unfazed in his “struggle”. He lives on a meager daily budget, and what he scrounges and earns, sometimes as a daily labor, goes in printing the pamphlets of the fourteen proofs that will change the world. He often distributes them free. He is not bitter…Galileo suffered the same fate he says. Someday..he knows…the truth must prevail. In the same 40 years, in which Pal held strong to his theory..the longest standing communist government has risen and fallen in the state of Bengal. Kolkata witnessed the journey in all its shade…from the radical naxals to the gentleman’s Marxism..which ultimately lay shattered. A reigning star of Bengal, Chirantan Chatterjee, an erstwhile left theatre activist and now an armchair revolutionary…meets Pal on a chance encounter and is intrigued. He calls Sanjib, a fellow traveler once upon a time, and asks him to research Pal. What makes this guy carry on while we ran. Unlike Chirantan, Sanjib is a cynic now. Living in a personal hell, he has lost all hope of anything good. Reluctantly he takes the assignment to research Pal. As the three characters….a fanatic….a former believer…and a cynic interact .the film explores the meaning or meanings of truth and martyrs thereof. As Sanjiv interacts with Pal, his own cynicism starts lifting. But Chirantan reacts differently. Pal seems to mock of his own failure to him….and Chirantan starts opposing Pal. In a turning point of the movie Chirantan forces Pal, like Galileo’s inquisition, to admit he was a fraud and charlatan and will no longer propagate the theory. Pal retreats back to the streets….but in a role reversal, Sanjiv rallies round Pal. Chirantan, in a bid to prove himself, goes to a striking jute mill to bring to public notice the agitation happening there. He leads the workers…and even gets Sanjiv to come and see a ‘real’ hero. But when the police come and the teargas shells fly..he flees. Returning ...Chirantan sees Pal back at the city streets…He assaults Pal but is dissuaded. Our film is a bio-fiction on this character KC PAL where we have tried to explore what "truth" means..for a person and as well for a city !!
Director Bio : This is my first completed and debut film. I am an engineer from Jadavpur University Kolkata and a Human Resource Specialist from XLRI Jamshedpur, earning my daily bread through employment at Tata Consultancy Services. However, from college days I have been involved in creative writing and have written for group theatres, TV shows, Bengali and Hindi Films and lately Hindi Web series. I generally write in the noir genre. For Films, In Hindi have co-written Agent Vinod (2012), Badlapur (2025) and Andhadhun (2018) with Sriram Raghavan. I received Stardust's best story award for Badlapur and was nominated for best screenplay award in Filmfare. In Bengali, I have written Chayamaush (2013), Kiriti o Kalo Bhromor (2016), Nilacvhole Kiriti (2017), Sheet Asche (2019, under production) and Phulmoni (WIP name, 2019). I am also working on a number of web-series. While I love writing and narrating stories I am also strongly driven by questions of identity, state, nationality and political beliefs. I personally would love to script and tell a few stories in this area. I am currently working on a script which I intend to shoot next year. This will talk about the sub-national identities and their quests in North East of our country. Apart from films I have written more than 5 TV Shows and 10 TV films and a number of theatres that have been performed. Currently, I am working on a number of Bengali and Hindi film scripts and web-series ideas.
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