SYNOPSIS
Myth and memory, folk and copyright, home and migration are the larger narratives emerging from the journey of a song from the margins into the urban mainstream.
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. Prabuddha Banerjee 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.
Travelling across remembered lands and forgotten histories following the unseen path of migration that music takes, You Don’t Belong asks some important questions about the encounter between art and mass production, creation and ownership in a country rich with myriad folk and oral traditions.
CREW
DIRECTOR: SPANDAN BANERJEE
PRODUCER: OVERDOSE FILMS
SCRIPT CONSULTANT: RUPLEENA BOSE
IMAGES: MRINAL DESAI, SUNIL PILLAI & QAUSHIQ
SOUND: PARTHA ROY BURMAN
MONTAGE: SPANDAN BANERJEE & ABHISHEK BATRA
MUSIC: INDRAADIP DASGUPTA
LINE PRODUCERS: ANNIE MATHEWS (DELHI & JAIPUR)
SHATABDI CHAKRABORTY (KOLKATA)
