Title of film : Kaleidoscope Now
Director Name : Anjan Dutt
Cast & crew :
Producer : Anjan Dutt,Neel Dutt
Editor : Arghyakamal Mitra
Cast :
Synopsis : A film based on true events. A film made to celebrate the birth anniversary of the legendary filmmaker Mrinal Sen. Anjan Dutt, the popular actor, singer and filmmaker started his career with Mrinal Sen. This film is about their first experience and the shooting of Mrinal Sen's film Chaalchitra. A comedy about a 26 year old Ranjan Dutt (Anjan Dutt) who is selected by a 57-year-old great filmmaker Kunal Sen ( Mrinal Sen) and their friendship. A film about the making of a film and how Ranjan Dutt slowly gets to understand his city Kolkata and through various funny and emotional sequences grows up to realise his future. A story about how a filmmaker changes his hero's understanding of life. How the filmmaker changes his perception of the city. How an actor finds his roots. A very funny, yet very emotional film.
Director Bio : Anjan Dutt is an eminent filmmaker, actor- in both film and theatre, singer and songwriter of contemporary India whose artistic career spans almost 50 years of relentless experimentation in all the fields he has worked in. He was one of the most exciting faces of radical theatre and cinema as the 1970s moved into the 1980s. He then went on to invent the new face of youth for a global India in the 1990s and 2000s, both in cinema and music, and continues to be a major cultural icon of contemporary India till date. Dutt began as an actor in the 1970s in the experimental theatre scene of Calcutta earning immediate recognition as a daring adaptor of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and Peter Weiss amongst others into Bengali, going on to becoming the pre-eminent interpreter of Bertolt Brecht in India. He began his film career as the lead actor in Mrinal Sen’s Chalchitra (Kaleidoscope) for which he won the Alitalia Award for the Best Newcomer Actor at the Venice Film Festival in 1981 thus becoming the first Indian actor to win an award at one of the ‘Big Three’. He then went on to act in subsequent Sen films, including Kharij (The Case is Dismissed) that won the Prix du Jury at Cannes in 1982, as well as in films made by some of the leading filmmakers of India such as Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Aparna Sen. He played ‘Dr Sunil’ in Roland Joffe’s international production of Dominique Lapierre’s City of Joy. At the height of a spectacular career as one of India’s top pop musicians through the 1990s and 2000s (with a huge following amongst the Indian Diaspora across the world), Dutt started a successful career as filmmaker. He immediately scored commercial and critical success with The Bong Connection, a youthful romantic comedy spanning the US and India. Dutt’s Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (Ranjana, I ain’t coming back) won the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film in Bengali in 2012 as well as won for him the Special Jury Prize for Best Actor. His films have been screened at some of the leading international film festivals of the world such as Madrid (won the Best Actress prize for Bow Barracks Forever (2005)), Munich, Dubai, Singapore, Hanoi and Dhaka amongst others. Bong Connection was screened at MOMA, New York, in 2005. Dutt continues to be, as we speak, a towering inspiration and hands-on guide for the young filmmakers, actors, songwriters and musicians of our time.
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