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Shamayita Chakraborty

Deutsche Welle and Former Guild Member

Shamayita is a journalist and film critic with over 15 years of experience. She has previously worked with Times Of India, OTT Play, Bangalore Mirror and Zee 24 Ghanta. She reviews and writes on Bengali, Hindi and English films and web series.

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Image of scene from the film Manikbabur Megh
Director:Abhinandan Banerjee
Cast:Chandan Sen, Debesh Roy Chowdhury, Arun Guha Tharkurta, Bratya Basu, Nimai Ghosh, Taranga Sarkar, Anirban Bhattacharyya, Arya Mallick, Mohua Sarkar, Supriti Bhadra
Writer:Abhinandan Banerjee

Manikbabur Megh

Drama (Bengali)

Abhinandan Banerjee and Chandan Sen present a magical love song through their cinema

Fri, July 12 2024

Chandan Sen’s Manikbabur Megh is clearly a disruption in the current space of the Bengali cinema. It is nothing that one wants to watch and yet it is everything that we cherish on the screen.

Manikbabu (Chandan Sen) lives a lonely life. He is first chased and then romanced by a whiff of cloud that only he can see. What do we see when we look at the sky? Manikbabu sees a whiff of cloud that refuses to leave him. He decides to embrace that celestial piece of cloud in his life. This lonely man and his quirky environment – his noisy ceiling fan, his rooftop greenhouse, the hanging lizard in the bathroom, the pile of files on his office table, and so on – tell a lot of hitherto bottled-up stories. The film is a collage of those chronicles.

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