Goutam Ghose’s short film Samayer Smritimala was screened at the 27^th Kolkata International Film Festival.

The film is about a writer Kabir Basu who is in his late 40s and his wife Sumita. They are a happy couple. They are caught in the Covid pandemic and the lockdowns. The film travels back and forth and shows they try to cope with the hard times and look for sanity. The film explores their fears, realizations, and other emotions.

The director said “I was busy shooting for Raahgir so I could do a film Angaar. However, I will like to do the film later on. Parikrama, an Indo-Italian co-production was started next by me. It is a multi-lingual film (Hindi, English, and partly Italian). The shoot in Italy was over in January 2020. We were shooting in the Southern part of Italy. I came back on the 1^st of February after the pandemic started in Italy. It is then that I started writing a script for this film that will share the real-life experiences of people during the pandemic”.

The screenplay for the film is Goutam Ghose.

The editor of the film is Niladri Roy and the music has been composed by Goutam Ghose.

The cast of the film consists of Gargee Roychowdhury, Suman Mukherjee, Anup Mukherjee, and Mithu Chakraborty.

While speaking about the use of new technology by young directors, the director said “Using technology is good but one must never forget the discipline of cinema. Just because you have a digital camera, you cannot go on shooting from different angles. You need to have a frame in mind before starting the shoot of a scene. That disciplines you in the craft of filmmaking”.

Video link of the event- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkb_q_7xKIc

Priyanka Dutta