Riingo’s next film explores the influence of water in human lives

Filmmaker Riingo’s next directorial ‘A River In Heaven’ delves into the age-old myth of water as a powerful agent of change and its repercussions on our lives.
There’s a common saying that water baptizes the mind, the body and the spirit. It has the power to cure, care as well as effect transformations in human beings that stretches beyond the mortal understanding of man.Set in Varanasi, Riingo’s film has one single motif running through it — Ganga, which is worshipped, praised, loved and deified by millions of God-fearing devotees. Ganga is not merely a river — she is an oracle, a portal where wishes are heard, blessings are granted and souls are purified. However, she has another side to her — even as Ganga fulfills dreams, she can also swallow lives, cause turbulence and lead to disaster. Her atrocities don’t go in vain, though — if she creates havoc, it is done with a singular purpose — to clear away all doubts, wash away all tears and dust all the cobwebs that hamper human beings in their spiritual progress.
“Against this backdrop, ‘A River in Heaven’ unfolds as a story of human relationships — of love, trust, friendship, betrayal and final reconciliation. The incidents and events depicted here act as Ganga changing lives sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst — but always for good. The story is based on people who face obstacles and challenges in their lives, their fate and course of action determine who they become in the end. Unknowingly, they open the floodgates to a series of emotional ups and downs that leaves them spinning on the wheel of life. It is a story of karmic retribution, karmic reward and relationships of husbands and wives and parents and children. It is an abiding tale of forgiveness and ultimate realizations,” shares Riingo while explaining the main concept of the film.
‘A River In Heaven’ features Debshankar Halder, Chandreyee Ghosh, Rafiath Rashid Mithila, Amrita Chattopadhyay, Sromona Chakraborty, Sudip Mukherjee, Bobby Chakraborty, Sayan Ghosh, Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee and Tannishtha Biswas among others in key roles. While the story is by Riingo, the director himself is in charge of cinematography, editing, grading and background score for the film. If all goes according to plan, it will hit the shooting floors in September.