Arunava Gangopadhyay
2021Hoyto Manush Noy
Arunava Gangopadhyay, Koustav Bhattacharya
Preetha Bhadra, Ambarish Bhattacharya
On a wintery morning in Kolkata, five people who leave office at midnight, take a cab to return home. During the course of the journey, they narrate stories of supernatural events, stories of spooky events they experienced, and stories that go beyond the mundane corporate life. As their journey nears the end, they realize that they have just had a journey of a lifetime.
Hoyto Manush Noy
Kalpavigyan: A Speculative Journey
Arunava Gangopadhyay
Barnita Bagchi, Adrish Bardhan
What is Bangla kalpavigyan? Is there such a thing as Bangla Science Fiction? Is there such a thing as Indian SF? This is our journey with the genre, captured and presented like never before in film. Beginning with the early work of writers such as Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain (Begum Rokeya) and the speculative mode in Bengal, and ending with the pioneering webzine Kalpabiswa, the film traces the historical arc of kalpavigyan over a century of the genre. From the genre magazines of the 1960s-80s and the writers and editors who ignited the movement by giving it shape and form, the film presents a series of conversations and critical reflections from researchers and scholars who have worked with the genre both in relation to Bengal and kalpavigyan as well as the wider phenomenon of SF.
Kalpavigyan: A Speculative Journey
