Independent filmmaker
Amartya Bhattacharyya recently bagged an international award for his Bengali feature film,
Runanubandha
- The HE without HIM, at
Canada
recently. He won the Best Editing award for this film at the
Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival
2019, held in
Ontario
, Canada. Amartya has also written and directed the film.
Speaking to us, Amartya said the festival had a great line-up with the central theme of Courageous Cinema. He told us that Runanubandha has also been selected as one of the two Indian feature films at the 17th Oakland International Film festival, which will be held in September this year.
The film, which explores a daughter’s search for her father in Kolkata, has been screened at several international film festivals in the past one year after premiering at the International Competition section of the 24th
Kolkata International Film Festival
last November. The film was shot entirely in Kolkata and portrays the city in a unique way, capturing the real moments of everyday life amidst a semi-surreal narrative.
The movie features debutante Priyanka Ghosh Roy as the protagonist, around whom the story revolves.
Swastik Choudhury has played a very interesting character, while filmmaker
Susant Mishra
has played a cameo in the film. The film’s music has been scored by Kisaloy Roy, whereas iconic rock musician and National Award-winning singer
Rupam Islam has sung the title song.
Amartya has also made two Odia feature films and several documentary and short films. He has won the National Award for Best Non-feature Film Cinematography for his short, Benaras: The Unexplored Attachments.
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