The Road Ahead
Here some of our dreams for immediate future
KHEL TOH HUMEIN KHELNE DO/A SHOT IN THE DARK
(bi-lingual feature film, Hindi/English)
‘a shot in the dark’ is another co-production of director Bidyut Kotoky and U.S. distributor, PPI Releasing.
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Raj was just one of the many frustrated ex-terrorist from northeast India who has become dissolute with life and looked for his solace in the bottle. Things would have continued the same way had it not been for the school teacher Mr. Bhattacharya, who reignited a dream which Raj had long given up – that of having a world class football club…this time as a coach and organizer! And using his goodwill, Mr. Bhattacharya even managed to organize an exhibition match between one of the top football team of the region with their football club – ‘Rising Star’!
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When Raj approached his ex-colleagues in their hid- out, they knew that he is struggling with finances to keep Rising Star afloat and will be forced to seek their help for a bail out. But there is this bizarre request: for self-styled ‘Major’ Joel, and cadet Raikom, to play for Rising Star in the exhibition match!! Raj is adamant -he had played & seen enough football in his life to know the capabilities of Joel, the centre forward & Raikom, the goal keeper.
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The problem with fairy-tale is that it doesn’t last forever… In the exhibition match, Joel misses a golden opportunity to score the equalizer at the dying moment! As the final whistle is blown, Raj understood the bitter truth in a hard way – keeping your cool in a battle field with bullet chasing you all around to snatch your life is much different from keeping your cool in an actual pressure cooker situation of a football match, in front of a thousand cheering crowd …
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Next day, after a long search, Mr Bhattacharya finds Raj sleeping outside the local wine brewing joint. But Raj’s hangover is taken care of by what he has to say. Rising Star XI lost the match alright, but the young team managed to win quite a few hearts – and they are invited to the neighbouring town as a wild card entrant to play in the qualifying tournament for the prestigious national league!!
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Raj realise that this is the closet he could come to live his childhood hood dream…But can he go back to Joel & Raikom for two of the most crucial position of his team? Especially because the township where tournament is to be hosted falls under police officer Ranjit – his school mate, who is also responsible for the encounter deaths of many of Raj’s ex-colleagues …
KAZIRANGA!
(bilingual Hindi/English feature film / web series)
‘Kaziranga’ is one more co-production of director Bidyut Kotoky and U.S. distributor, PPI Releasing.
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Sanjeev is travelling with his park colleagues through the Kaziranga National Park when the rogue elephant Rani decides to give a chase… They are carrying fire arms, but Sanjeev can’t ever think of using guns against the very animal he is supposed to protect! They are lucky as, in the nick of time, they find a wooden bridge where they park their vehicle – a bridge which the angry elephant knows may be too unstable to hold her! From his elderly colleague Dhareshwar da Sanjeev comes to understand that as a baby elephant Rani saw her mother killed before her eyes by poachers, and since then she has hated human beings pathologically….
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Yes, Sanjeev has been looking forward to his posting as a Divisional Forest Officer of the Kaziranga National Park and had expected the posting to have challenges – but he had no idea just how challenging it would be… There is a well-oiled poaching cartel working with the pride of Kaziranga and highly endangered, one horned rhinoceros as their target. Rhino horns price being higher than that of cocaine and gold in the black market, makes the cartel highly efficient and dangerous at the same time! Although it seems impossible to completely control these poachers on the local level, Sanjeev and his bunch of colleagues refuse to give up!
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The local police inspector of the area, Ranjit - almost at the last run of his service life - deals more on the grey and corrupt front than of law. And his relationship with the upright Sanjeev is far from friendly. But as time goes by Sanjeev discovers another shade of Ranjit and that they shares common trait – a bitter hatred for the poachers. However, due to his own bad experiences with the authorities Ranjit doesn’t have much faith in the due process of law. He prefers to gun down the poachers in ‘encounters’ rather than arrest them. And Sanjeev’s insistence on doing everything by the book causes some ugly situations between them, even as both work toward the common goal of stopping the poachers…
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In his crusade to save the wild-life, Sanjeev discovers that some local people are actually his allies – like the young girl Parul or the elderly tea planter Mr Hazarika. Just as he also discovers that appearances can be deceive - it is really difficult to separate friends from foes when it comes to battling a multi-million dollar black market of rhino horns…
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And then there is Rani – the rogue elephant. For the people living in the periphery of Kaziranga, she is a terror, and they are after the forest department to gun her down. However, Sanjeev has a crazy idea - like trying to develop a friendship with the rampaging Rani…
MOI ARU MUR SAA.../MY SHADOW...MY COMPANION
(bi-lingual Assamese/Bengali feature film)
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The 1980’s Assam…the burning Assam…. not the best place for love… more so, if the people involved are from two different communities: Assamese and Bengali.
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Raktim Phukan. A popular young singer. Also involved with the ongoing student agitation. Anamika Banerjee. A young girl and also a talented, popular singer from a different part of the state. Music is the common bond that created the vibration in their hearts… but it was not the best of time for love… Circumstances forces them to walk away on separate roads…
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Time – the greatest leveller! In a twist of time, Raktim ends up marrying a Bengali and Anamika an Assamese… but not each other!
They are moving on with their lives. Happily… or so they thought… till destiny again brings Raktim and Anamika in front of each other…
Almost 15 years has passed since they had last met! But, more the things changed, more they remain the same…
Or, do they actually remain the same?
ANGRY MOUNTAIN
(Hindi/English bilingual feature film)
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When you are in the heart of an evergreen forest in a tiny state in the northeast of India, which receives on an average 12,000 mm of rainfall every year, there’s bound to be a few surprises. The state of Meghalaya is home to incredible natural beauty and resources. Hidden deep in its mountains are some priceless treasures - uranium (mined as discreetly as possible by the government), coal (destructively mined by local companies that have no government regulation) and many such riches of nature. Meghalaya is also one of the top ten destinations for cave tourism in the world, having more than thousand natural caves in her bosom that are home to various life forms and geo-morphological features carrying records of climate change of our planet.
A group of hikers arrive here to explore the one of the longest limestone cave system of the Indian sub-continent. The group consists of the geologist daughter of the man in charge of the government's uranium mining, her new love interest - an urban young professional, an emotionally scarred photo-journalist cum amateur cave explorer and his impromptu British national friend who's in Meghalaya to explore her mother’s homeland. The group is awe- struck at the fascinatingly beautiful work of nature that have lied hidden from mortal eyes for thousands of years… however they are caught off guard when their only exist route is blocked by freak rock fall - perhaps nature way of retaliating to the mindless destruction of ecology by men… Stuck in the deep, dark, unknown interior of the earth, the explorers have to find a way out of the web of the cave- ill-prepared for the task and unaware of what may lie ahead, with time running out fast…
NEGOTIATOR
(English/ Hindi bilingual feature film)
Anubhav, a young man in his late twenties, is the only son of his parent and a rising professional working in Mumbai. Right after passing out from High School he is sent away from his hometown in Northeast to Delhi for higher studies. During the ten years of studies and later in pursuing an ambitious career, he somehow never got to go back to the ‘small town’ where he grew up in. However his parents always made it a point to visit him during every holiday and together they toured almost every corner of the country. May be that was another reason why Anubhav never exactly missed his hometown…
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Anubhav’s cocooned world suddenly cracked when, a telephone call tells him that a freak car accident leads to the death of his parents. Never even in his wildest dream Anubhav thought that he would have to returns back to his hometown under such circumstances!
As Anubhav was trying to get over his personal tragedy and pick up the pieces of his life, he realises that a decade is a long time and things have changed in this little town! The peaceful little nondescript town is in a state of insurgency now- almost being torn apart in the strife between the government & the various extremist outfits and also within the extremist groups themselves! Tension rules high in every street, life and property is no longer safe... amidst this anarchy, every extremist group is trying to rule the land their way and get their pound of flesh! Various rebel outfits have developed their own way of collecting money – which they term as 'tax'. They demands ‘tax’ from corporate houses functioning in the region. The corporates in turn hires a person to negotiate the amount on their behalf- which is finally bought down to an acceptable level to both the parties & one has to pay the amount to exist!
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Due to a quirk of fate & event, Anubhav suddenly comes across a not so pleasant truth about his father and realizes that to know the whole truth, he has no option but to accept the offer of becoming a ‘negotiator’ in this game between a big corporate house and one of the main extremist organizations of the state.
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During the chain of events that follows, Anubhav becomes a pawn in the larger scheme of things. Life takes a surreal turn... He finds himself sitting on a time bomb, with everyone taking their hands off him…
