Title of film : AUTUMN AFTERNOON
Director Name : Ashoke Viswanathan
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Producer : Ashoke Viswanathan
Editor : Arghyakamal Mitra
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Synopsis : A superannuated gentleman residing in the countryside is suddenly drawn into the world of theatre. The local group wants him in a Bengali version of a Pirandello play and he becomes involved with one of the players, a young girl in her twenties who, like him, is new to theatre. Against the backdrop of the pandemic and the imminent war in Ukraine, this story of a highly unlikely relationship unfolds even as a strictly conservative society looks on with baited breath. What complicates the narrative further is the near absurd presence of the protagonist's wife who may be one of two persons... As the pandemic necessitates a hiatus in the rehearsals and the emptiness of his house engulfs him, the lonely gentleman gets sucked into a world of fantasy ; his expectations build up and he becomes acutely sensitive to his milieu.
Director Bio : Ashoke Viswanathan is a multiple national and international award winning filmmaker who has been Professor and Dean at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata(2016-2022). He was HOD, Direction and Screenplay Writing at SRFTI (1996- 1997), Guest Professor at FTII(2004- 2005) at FTII and HOD, Producing for Film and Television at SRFTI (2016). He has directed more than 150 film projects including feature films( 'Sunya Theke Suru', 'Kichu Sanglap Kichu Pralap' etc), documentaries, shorts and television shows. Apart from the national awards, he has had 6 Indian Panorama entries at the International Film Festival Of India(Goa) in 1994, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2021.
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