Award Winning National Documentary Film Production & Making: Overdose Films

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In Development

The 1990s to 2023, India. A little store run by artists on the Parliament Street in New Delhi is the silent witness of history, art, protest, and struggle, capturing an ever-changing nation.

COTTON CLASSIC

In Development

The story of the land, of free will, of destiny. Of two farmers and a crop that decides their life paths. Cotton.

TALKING HEAD (2021)

A reclusive actor remembers the golden era of Bengali cinema from the seventies. And Calcutta.

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SYNOPSIS

An almost reluctant actor is a rarity. In the summer of 2019 I started telling a story about an elusive actor. The story was about the past. In spring 2020, the narrative changed course. The story of the past became more poignant. Life as we knew it changed around March 2020. The documentary continued it’s already changed course.

Talking Head is about the actor Dhritiman ChaterjI. An actor introduced to cinema by Satyajit Ray. It is a film about an actor who completes fifty years in cinema and remains a man of real concerns and a political voice. An actor who is still acting but cinema has changed. An actor who does not know his role in the films of today. An actor trying to fit in.

Talking Head tells his story; and the story of India through the years. Stories that give a ringside view of cinema, its processes, the directors that lived and died.

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FILM COMPANION

https://www.filmcompanion.in/features/bengali-features/talking-head-documentary-dhritiman-chaterji-is-an-absorbing-portrait-of-an-actor-unattached-to-the-frills-of-stardom-new-york-indian-film-festival/

CINESTAAN

https://www.cinestaan.com/reviews/talking-head-46302

CINEMAZI

https://www.cinemaazi.com/feature/talking-heads

ENGLISH INDIA (2015)

Livelihood, hope, respectability, dream, education, fear, ambition, mobility, love, lust, power, status, aspiration; English is a colourful thread that binds the multilingual dreams of this multilingual nation.

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SYNOPSIS

A three part roller coaster ride into India around English language and the stories of power, struggle and humour.

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FESTIVAL

NYIFF, NEW YORK 2011

IIFI, GOA 2012

IDSFFK, KERALA 2012

‘YOU DON’T BELONG’ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CHINA, 2013

TO-LET (2013)

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Six tenant cats gets ready to move houses. A story about moving, renting and living.

BEST DOCUMENTARY, IDSFFK 2013

AWARD CITATION:

Much like a jazz jam, the film takes us on a journey through the plight of the modern urban nomad in search of a home in a modern day Delhi. Drawing on a mosaic of all too familiar situations, the director creates a funny and poignant ballad that really grooves.

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THE HINDU

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/to-let-best-long-documentary/article4804355.ece

SUNDAY GUARDIAN

http://www.sunday-guardian.com/masala-art/its-time-to-strike-camp-again-shifting-homes-shifting-lives

NEW INDIAN EXPRESS

http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/To-Let-bags-honour/2013/06/12/article1630943.ece

FILM SOUTH ASIA

http://www.filmsouthasia.org/2013/10/03/gargisen/

NEWS LOOK UP

http://cached.newslookup.com/cached.php?ref_id=455&siteid=2373&id=8455697&t=1411567516

FINANCIAL EXPRESS

http://archive.financialexpress.com/news/capitally-curious/960629

Director's Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuWsSYb3LHU

YOU DONT BELONG (2011)

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SYNOPSIS

Paban Das is a baul singer living in France singing songs of wandering minstrels. Arun Chakraborty is a poet living a quietly content life in a hamlet of West Bengal. Bhoomi is a band from Kolkata, popular for their renditions of folk tunes. Prabudhdha is a musician with a history of protest music. Paraspather is an erstwhile band left with memories of their popular songs and lost fame. Disparate characters who are bound together by a filmmaker’s search for the elusive author of a song, popular in collective memory as a traditional folk song. What follows is a long self-reflexive journey into the world of folk, a journey, which nudges established ideas of home, nostalgia, belonging, and authorship as the film explores deeper into the song that serves for a metaphor of the contemporary fragmented times.