Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Urojahaj in the Maestro section of KIFF

Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s film, Urojahaj (The Flight), has been selected to be featured in the Maestro section of the Kolkata International Film Festival. It will be shown in Nandan on November 11. Chandan Roy Sanyal and Parno Mittra play the lead roles in this film. Dasgupta has won numerous national and international awards, accolades and honours from prestigious organisations worldwide in the last 40 years of his filmmaking career.Urojahaj revolves around a village mechanic who dreams of flying. After discovering the crash site of a World War II Japanese plane, Bachchu Mondal decides to rebuild it. His project doesn’t go unnoticed by the ghosts who haunt the place, all victims of broken dreams. Authorities begin their investigation of Mondal as a life-threatening series of bizarre events take place.The director, on his part, said, “A small newspaper report caught my attention years back. It was about a weird dream of an apparently crazy man. I started developing the concept for my next film when I found that even a naive dream can actually turn out to be a threat to the system. It can, as well, land someone in a misery that he or she doesn’t deserve. I wanted to make a film on journeys of dreams – some lost amidst the growing violence and intolerance of today’s time, some still gasping for life and some more that are not ready to succumb. The film is on simple human dreams and the dreamers. I still believe warplanes want to fly away from war zones, just to remember the silent song of the sky. "