National film award winner Seema Biswas is back in the city to act in a Bengali film after a gap of 13 years. Though she has delivered memorable performances in various films, but one film of hers which no one can forget is ‘Bandit Queen’.
The announcement of Aurora’s next film ‘mon-potongo’ (mindflies) took place at the prestigious office of Aurora Film Corporation in the presence of the cast and crew. Apart from the producer Anjan Bose,writer and director duo Rajdeep Paul & Sarmistha Maiti, entire cast and crew were present during the event. National award-winning actor Seema Biswas, Subhankar Mohanta, Baishakhi Roy, Amit Saha, Anindita Ghosh, Janardan Ghosh,Tribikram Ghosh, Aninda Roy and many others were present on this occasion. Famous actor Joy Sengupta, Tannishtha Biswas others too will be seen in pivotal roles in this film.
Rana Pratap Karforma is the Director of Photography of the film. Avijit Kundu is the music director, Senjeet Haider is the Production Designer, Prateek Bagi is the Executive Producer, Adeep Singh Manki and Anindit Roy will do the Sound design and film mixing and Kaushik Ray is in charge of the VFX and colour grading of the film.
The films narrates the story of a madly-in-love inter-faith couple run away from the village fearing persecution and finds shelter on the open pavements of the city streets. As they get accustomed to the harsh life on the streets their minds are enchanted by a throne like “Seat of Power” inside an exquisite furniture showroom which they want to gift to and and share with each other as a token of their love. The ambitious duo do not want to be like insects that crawl and get crushed on the roads. They want to climb up the social ladder so that they can attain their desired “seat of power’. Their obsession to attain that seat leads them through the tempting by-lanes of wealth, intellectuality and power and meet a cast of colourful characters. Their love falls apart and they drift apart from each other. Their minds fly like insects that fly too close to the fire only to be burnt by it. Hatred, fear, insecurity and traditional misconceptions about masculinity and femininity drive them into a spiralling journey towards doom until they can finally realize their folly when they witness the transiency of wealth, the vanity of intellectuality and the brutality of state-backed power. Will they be able to acknowledge each others’ sacrifices, break the shackles of temptation and rise by above their selfish desires to sacrifice for the greater good because only then can they transform their desired “Seat of Power’ into the “Seat of Love”?
