Calcutta, My Love returns to the Calcutta of the 1960s and 70s and to the birth of the radical Naxalite movement when a section of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) led by Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal led a violent uprising in 1967. The film’s protagonist, a young rural boy from a modest family who goes to Calcutta for further studies, gets unwittingly sucked into the movement even though violence is not in his character. His life whirls around his love for a girl, his commitment to the movement and his imprisonment. Calcutta, My Love is a chronicle of those turbulent years as seen through the story of the young Animesh.

Sceneggiatura / Screenplay Goutam Ghose
Fotografia (colore, b/n) / Photography (colour, b/w) Indraneel Mukherjee
Montaggio / Editing Shubhro Roy
Musica / Music Gautam Ghosh
Interpreti / Cast Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Paoli Dam, Santu Mukherjee,
Shantilal Mukherjee
Produzione / Production Tapan Kumar Das / Calcutta Doordarshan
Anno di produzione / Year of production 2007
Durata / Running time 165’
Formato / Format Digital

Goutam Ghose

Born in Calcutta in 1950, he graduated from the Calcutta University, then works in theatre as a promoter and director. He made 1973 his directorial debut with the short film New Heart. His first directorial feature debut is Maa Bhoomi (1979). He was also among the interpreters of Grihayuddha by Buddhadeb Dasgupta, screened in Venice in 1982. Two years after, his Paar earns in Venice the Fipresci prize. After that, he directed and produced various short films, documentaries and feature films which are selected and awarded at prestigious festivals such as Karlovy Vary, Sydney, Locarno, Berlin, Venice, Cannes. Among his most recent works: Padma Nadir Majhi (1993), Patang (1994), Gudia (1998), Ray (1999), Beyond the Himalayas (2000) and Dekha (2001).