N A N D A N - Bulletin A monthly publication of the West Bengal Film Centre MAY, 2019 NANDAN, WEST BENGAL FILM CENTRE, 1/1 A.J.C. BOSE ROAD, KOLKATA -7000020 Nandan, West Bengal Film Centre was opened on 2nd September, 1985 under the aegis of the Department of Information & Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal for promotion of lm and lm culture. In the words of Late Satyajit Ray, the eminent lm maker from Bengal and the rst Chairman of Nandan; “the Centre would concern itself with all aspects of cinema”. Functions : As an art house for release of quality lms and organising lm festivals, retrospectives, children's lm shows, documentaries etc. to serve the requirements of Film clubs/ Societies for their screenings and other programmes and regular screenings of movies at Nandan I & II auditoriums. Objective : Nandan concentrates on cinema as a subject of study and as a cultural movement and endeavours to preserve cinema of signicance in its archives. Its library is constantly being enriched with collection of books and periodicals on cinema which is open to all lm lovers. Screening Facilities NANDAN – I NANDAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE Rated as one of the best cinema show houses in the country with excellent audio Sri Aroop Biswas, Chairman –visual equipment for commercial screenings. Sri Indranil Sen, Co-chairman Capacity - 931 Online Booking - Ticket available on Bookmyshow, 2 days ahead of show. Sri Sandip Ray, Co-Chairman Rate of the tickets - Front stall Rs:- 30/-, Rear stall Rs:- 50/- Sri Ranjit Mallick, Member & Balcony Rs:- 70/- Sri Raj Chakraborty, Member Projection System - Barco 4K & NEC 2K Sri Vivek Kumar, IAS, Principal Secretary, I & CA Department, Member Sound System - Dolby Digital 7.1 Screen - Harkness , 68/34ft. Sri Mitra Chatterjee, WBCS (Exe.), CEO, Nandan, Member-Convener NANDAN – II Website: www.kiff.in With a seating capacity of 165, used for commercial screenings, lectures, seminars video viewing for lm society screenings etc. Online booking system - Ticket available on Bookmyshow, 2 days ahead of show. SCREENING COMMITTEE Rate of the tickets - Rs:- 30/- Shri Surya Banerjee, Former Professor, Presidency College Projection System - NEC 2K Shri Prabhat Roy, Eminent Film Maker Sound System - Dolby Digital 5.1 Smt. Shoma A Chatterji, Eminent Journalist, Film Scholar and Author Screen - 30/20ft., Synthetic Shri Haranath Chakraborty, Eminent Film Maker NANDAN – III Mostly used for previews, Film club screening, Academic sessions, Film workshop, KEY OFFICIALS lectures , seminars, video viewing . Capacity - 100 Mr. Vivek Kumar, IAS, Principal Secretary & Director General, KIFF Projection System - Panasonic Sri Mitra Chatterjee, WBCS (Executive), CEO, Nandan, Director, KIFF & Sound System - Dolby Digital 5.1 Director of Information Screen - 16 /9 ft. Sri Pranab Das, WBA & AS, Accounts Ofcer, Nandan NANDAN – IV Accommodates exhibitions, conferences, lectures, seminars receptions, book- releases, press conference with 60 seating capacity. RENT Nandan-I : Rs. 10,000/- per show (2 ½ hours) Nandan-II : Rs. 2000/- per show (2 ½ hours) Nandan-III : Rs.1000/- per hour Nandan-IV : Rs. 500/- per hour NANDAN -BULLETIN | May 2019 FILM SCREENED DURING APRIL, 2019 NANDAN – I BASU PORIBAR Director : Suman Ghosh Release Date : 5th April'19 Period of screening : 4 weeks (running) Distributer : Piyali Films Cast : Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Jishu Sengupta, Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee, Sreenanda Shankar. Synopsis : While a retired barrister and his wife resolve to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, with their children and family members arriving from various corners of the world to make the occasion memorable. As all of them gather under one roof, unresolved issues from their past resurface leading to unforeseen consequences. Occupancy : 72% (26 Days in April, 19) VINCI DA Director : Srijit Mukherjee Release Date : 12th April'19 Period of screening : 3 weeks (running) Distributer : SVF Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Cast : Rudranil Ghosh , Ritwick Chakraborty, Sohini Sarkar, Anirban Bhattacharya. Synopsis : The story weaves around a prosthetic makeup artist Vinci da whose life becomes hell when Adi Bose enters into his life to seek help for getting the prosthetic makeup of those criminals who get relief from the court for not having any proof of their criminal activities. Adi Bose used that prosthetic makeup of those criminals and commits the same crime like them for which they have been accused. In between these incidents, somehow Vincida`s & his love interest Jaya`s life also get affected by those incidents and he gradually comes out from the criminal shadow of Adi Bose. Occupancy : 100% (19 Days in April, 19) MUKHERJEE DAR BOU Director : Pritha Chakraborty Release Date : 8th March'19 Period of screening : 5 weeks Distributer : Windows Cast : Koneenica Banerjee, Aparajita Adhya, Anusuya Majumdar, Biswanath Basu, Rituparna Sengupta. Synopsis : Mukherjee Dar Bou is a story based on a modern dysfunctional family revolving around the complex and intricate yet caring relationship between a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law. The viewers have to wait till the end of the story to know the name of the main character. Occupancy : 58% (11 Days in April, 19) NAGARKIRTAN Director : Kaushik Ganguly Release Date : 22th February'19 Period of screening : 9 weeks Distributer : Surinder Films Pvt. Ltd. Cast : Riddhi Sen, Ritwick Chakraborty, Sujan Mukherjee, Bidipta Chakraborty, Indrasish Roy. Synopsis : Unable to cope with the trauma of being 'betrayed' by his teacher Subhash da, Porimal, a trans gender, runs away from home and joins a ghetto of eunuchs as Puti and sings at trafc signals to earn money. There he falls in love with Madhu, a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a autist in kirtans. Their love blossoms while they dream of raising money required for the sex surgery after meeting the rst transgender person in India. But the commoners do not support their dreams. Puti is arrested and commits suicide by hanging herself with her towel inside the lock up at a police station. Eventually, Madhu joins the same ghetto of eunuchs. Occupancy : 70% (11 Days in April, 19) TARIKH Director : Churni Ganguly Release Date : 12th April'19 Period of screening : 3 weeks (running) Distributer : Opera Movies. Cast : Swasta Chatterjee , Raima Sen ,Ritwick Chakraborty Synopsis : TARIKH explores the mundane, yet exquisite nature of human bonds, through the everyday lives of three friends, and shows how social media affects their lives. Anirban, a professor and an idealist, teaches his students to protest by debating, not vandalizing, and uses social media to inspire. Ira, his wife, is a conformist addicted to social media. Rudrangshu, their old friend, is a sanguine realist, and plays the role of a friend to them. When Anirban dies suddenly, Ira tries to keep him alive by talking to him through messages on facebook. She goes through his facebook posts, and touches a side of Anirban that she had made no effort to understand when he was alive. Occupancy : 68% (13 Days in April, 19) MAHALAYA Director : Soumik Sen Release Date : 1st March, 19 Period of screening : 5 weeks Distributer : Nldeas Creations and Production. Cast : Subhasish Mukherjee, Jishu Sengupta , Prasenjit Chatterjee, Koushik Sen, Subhomoy Chatterjee. Synopsis : The Film is based on the “Mahalaya”, a programme organised by the all India Radio in 1976, on the morning of Devipakhsya which provoked a massive resentment from every corner of the Society and the listeners demanded the restoration of the earlier version of Mahayala. The story revolves around this piquant situation . Occupancy : 42% (11 Days in April, 19) JYESHTHOPUTRO Director : Kaushik Ganguly Release Date : 26 th April’19 Period of screening : 6 weeks Distributer : Surindar Films Cast : Ritwick Chakraborty, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Sreya Bhattacharya Synopsis : Indrajit the famous superstar receives the news of the death of his father and rushes to his native place Ballabhpur. Indrajit has come to Ballabhpur after ten long years. It seems to him that his native place, his village of Ballabhpur has gone through a tremendous change because of which he is unable to relate to the people and places as he used to. He gets nostalgic and can almost see how these ten years has brought out a change not only in his surroundings, but also in himself. The story unveils with the journey of Indrajit the eldest son (JYESTHOPUTRO) endeavouring to nd his own self. Occupancy : 78% (13 Days in April, 19) NANDAN -BULLETIN | May 2019 FILM SCREENED DURING APRIL, 2019 NANDAN – II SWEATER Director : Shieladitya Moulik Release Date : 29th March'19 Period of screening : 5 weeks (running) Distributer : PSS Entertainment Cast : Ishaa Saha, Anuradha Mukherjee, Kharaj Mukherjee, Sourav Das, June Malia, Sreelekha Mitra Synopsis : Tuku has always believed that she is an unremarkable girl lacking any special talent. Her father wants to get her married, but her unassuming nature leads to a lot of rejections. Eventually, a respected family from Kolkata agree to an arrangement, but upon one strange condition: the would-be bride should know how to knit a sweater. Tuku is sent to a relative's house to learn knitting, but here, she undergoes a transformation courtesy,the interesting friends she makes and Shammo, the impressionist she falls in love with. Will a reformed Tuku be condent enough to stand up for herself? Well, we have to wait till the end of the lm. Occupancy : 100% (26 Days in April, 19) AHAA RE Director : Ranjan Ghosh Release Date : 22 February 2019 Period of screening : 8 weeks Distributer : Bhavna Aaj O Kal Cast : Arn Shuvo, Rituparna Sengupta, Amrita Chattopadhyay, Paran Bandyopadhyay,Dipankar Dey Synopsis : The lm centres around a rich Muslim chef from Dhaka and a middle-class Hindu home cook from Kolkata. She specializes in traditional Bengali cuisine while Aren is a master of Bangladeshi dishes. The duo meets and discovers love through their shared passion for food and cooking. The lm is as much about love as it is about life's struggles and explores why and how our religious identities get blurred when there are so many inspiring stories around us.