'M@K' goes to Munich

National award winning film-maker Suman Mukhopadhyay's Mahanagar@Kolkata, a film which shows the City of Joy in a new avatar, is all set to be screened at the Munich Film Festival.

The city comes alive in the film which takes a path untrodden by Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen when they made films with Kolkata as the backdrop. In Ray's Mahanagar and Sen's famous Kolkata trilogy, cult films of the 70s, the two directors set out to explore the city's multifaceted psyche.

Mahanagar@Kolkata will be screened in the non-competitive section of the Munich Film Festival. According to the director, the film turns the spotlight on the city, revealing an altogether new identity.


PTI