Moloy Mukherjee

Vakratunda Swaha

Ashish Avikunthak, Moloy Mukherjee

Girish Dahiwale, Debu Pramanik

In 1997, Ashish Avikunthak filmed a sequence -- a friend and artist, Girish Dahiwale, immersing an idol of Ganesha at Chowpati beach, Bombay on the last day of the Ganapati festival. A year later, he committed suicide. After twelve years, Avikunthak completed the film. Using his footage as the leitmotif, this film is a requiem to a dead friend, and metamorphosises into an “existential inquiry into the idea of death”.

Messy Forever

Moloy Mukherjee

Debut directorial effort from Moloy Mukherjee, co-writer of Ashish Avikunthak’s 2007 feature Nirakar Chhaya (Shadows Formlesss). Mukherjee’s film is an urban Kolkata film and placed at the center of it’s intriguing narrative play is a young man interacting with people from, and finding his way through, various class and social locations. There is a focus on conversations around cultural politics and sexual politics in the city. The intriguing style with its many rough edges, possibly emerging from the ‘Cinema of Prayoga’ conversations, allows for something of the located experiences it seeks to record to come through.