Seeing Life from Many Extremes
is the Short Film, “My Karma”
Sometimes small films end up
saying big things - My Karma. The young filmmaker Korak
Day has directed this film, it is barely
of 30 minutes but by the time it finishes, it ends up
giving a lot of messages. The director in his testimonials
has called it a Docu-Feature but it is a completely descriptive feature
film.
Made under
the banner of “Aamar Nijer Productions” this film starts
at Kalighat temple in Kolkata and also
ends somewhere here. The big thing in this small film
is that the noted actress in the Bengal
Film Industry Moon Moon Sen and noted actor Arjun Chakraborty
have also worked together.
Both of them play husband and wife in this film.
In the film Arjun Chakraborty has lived the role of a
man, who is very busy in his life. He has no
time for his wife (Moon Moon Sen) and his children. But
the wife is quite a religious type and keeps going
to Kalighat temple from time to time. The husband has
no time for religion. He doesn’t have any time for anything
except his office and big hotels.
One day his wife has to go
to Kalighat temple, but her car has broken down. As there
is no other way out for him, the husband (Arjun
Chakraborty) has to drop her at the temple. The husband
goes to the temple with his wife. Once at the temple the
wife enters it and offers her prayers. Outside
the husband keeps on waiting for his wife. While waiting
outside the husband sees so many helpless people
that he is full of empathy. When the wife comes out of
the temple after finishing her prayers she
finds the husband very disturbed. Then both of them pick
up a dying destitute from the nearby footpath
and take him to a hospital. The film finishes here but
there is a change in the life of the hero of the film.
Actually Korak Day’s this film
“My Karma” portrays the importance and use of doing Karma
in his film.
In this film star actor Sabyasachi
Chakraborty’s stirringly powerful voice has also been
used in many places. In the film Asim Bose’s photography
is fabulous. Asim has worked with great and famous
filmmakers like Buddhadev Dasgupta,
before doing this film.
“My Karma”
is invited to New York International Film and Video festival.
We expect
that Korak Day’s film will leave a mark on the foreign
shores too.
Jaynarayan Prasad |
