Kathantara
Kathantara | |
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Directed by | Anu Chowdhury Bhaswati Basu Rasesh Mohanty Bedaprasad Dash |
Cinematography | Sameer Mahajan |
Edited by | Rabi Pattnaik |
Music by | Swarup Nayak |
Distributed by | Kadambinee Media Pvt. Ltd |
Release date |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
Country | India |
Languages | Odia, Bengali |
Kathantara (
Synopsis
Kathantara, a feature film in
The genesis of Kalpana’s ordeal is rooted in history. Like others in that locality her father a forced migrant from
Dipankara makes a repeat visit without his camera unit and he just wants to meet Kalpana. He is fascinated with her innocence, beauty and determination. He shares with her lot of things about himself, about his people and the life out there in Dhaka. He also learns about Kalpana and wants to put an end to her suffering. It becomes difficult on Kalpana’s part to reconcile in settling down with a person she hardly knows. Yet again, she is fed up with this place with bleak prospect. The frustration of the never ending follow-up for compensation money, the anguish of being treated as women of loose virtue by village youths, and the illicit advances by Rupa’s husband makes Kalpana insecured. Rupa, also believes how difficult it is for a single woman, especially a young and good looking widow to cope up with her present situation. She insists upon Kalpana to settle down with Dipankar in Bangladesh — the land of her forefathers.
A brief stay in Kolkata prior to crossing the border becomes a revealing moment in Kalpana’s life. She realises she will be a misfit in the far off urban setting of Dhaka and would suffer further alienation. The memories of her homeland, of her childhood, of all that she had and all that she lost will haunt her for the rest of her life. She longs to return to her village. She also reconciles to the fact that Dipankar, in spite of all his concern and support, is just another ambitious journalist whose priority is his career. He sees everything from the point of view of news and story. Right now she is a hot subject for Dipankar, he can get lot of publicity if he marries her.
The scene in her village is different-now. The improper eviction process for the
Cast
- Anu Chowdhuryas Kalpana, a cyclone widow
- Bhaswati Basu as Rupa
- Rasesh Mohanty as Akshaya
- Bedaprasad Das as Deepankar
- Choudhury Bikash Das as Bikash
- Mihir Swain as the late husband of Kalpana
- Mamuni Mishra
- George Tiadi
- Surya Mohanty
- Ananta Mohapatra
- Choudhury Jayaprakash Das
- Bidyutprava Devi
- Chakradhara Jena
Credits
- Director – Himansu Khatua
- Story – Himansu Khatua
- Producer – Itirani Samanta
- Composer – Swarup Nayak
- Cinematographer – Sameer Mahajan
- Editor – Ravi Patnaik
- Art – Amiya Maharana
Awards
Kathantara went on to win several awards at the 2006
- Orissa State Film Awards
- Best feature film of the year 2006
- Best Director & Best Story - Himanshu Khatua
- Best Music Director - Swaroop Nayak
- Best Photography - Sameer Mahajan
- Best Audiography - Manas Chaudhry & Gitimugdha Sahani
- Best Supporting Actress - Bhaswati Basu
- Best Supporting Actor - Hadu
- National Film Award
- Best featured film in Oriya
- Best featured film in
Music
Swarup Nayak has arranged the musical score and written the lyric for this film.
References
- ^ a b "Kathantara-Film Review | iZeans". Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
- ^ "Kathantara | Upperstall.com". www.upperstall.com. Archived from the original on 8 January 2009.
- ^ organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=148&page=31
- ^ "Kathantar, Sasu Ghara Chlijib win 8 awards each". hindu.com. Chennai, India. 20 May 2007. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
- ^ "Award winning parallel cinema Kathantara released, Orissa Entertainment News". orissadiary.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
External links
- Kathantara at IMDb