‘Mahanagar@Kolkata’: A preview

Mahanagar@Kolkata explores several facets of life in the city, through three interweaving stories, documenting the loves, fears, joys, sorrows, insecurities, and confidences of people who, despite differences, seem to merge in one great long flow of humanity.

Manmatha belongs to the upper echelons of the new, burgeoning middle class. While spending a night at the emergency ward of a state hospital, he comes across Jagadish, a lower-middleclass man, whose footballer son is fighting a deadly stomach injury. Manmatha is completely baffled by Jagadish’s unruffled, serene attitude. When a violent street fight near the hospital prompts the two to retreat to Manmatha's car, they see the outside world….

Biren is jobless and lives on the fringes of the city. Near a neighborhood construction site bombs are hurled and bullets fired by gangs disputing over extortions. Biren begins to ask all and sundry: "I have nothing to fear. Do I?" He gets the same answer: "What do you have to fear?" And yet Biren cannot get over his fear. An unknown terror grips him. But, unfortunately, Biren’s worst fears come true.

Rohit and Rongili have separated. Armed with an MBA from the US, Rohit makes loads of money from his job in a multinational company. It is a dazzlingly packaged life, empty at the core. But something strange happens to him on the day of the lunar eclipse. He is drinking alone in his swanky high-rise apartment when he sees a weird hallucination: a pyre has been set in the heart of the city for the medieval ritual of burning widows. Hours later Rohit is lying unconscious in the hospital.

AVA Film Productions & Pawan Kanodia present

Mahanagar@Kolkata

(English title: Metropolis@Kolkata)

A film by Suman Mukhopadhyay

Main Cast: Anjan Dutt, Arun Mukhopadhyay, Biplab Chatterjee, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha Mitra, Kabir Suman and Pawan Kanodia.

Main Crew:

Story:   Nabarun Bhattacharya
Cinematography: Indranil Mukherjee
Music:   Rupam Islam
Producer:  Pawan Kanodia
Production:  AVA Film Productions Pvt. Ltd.