TBT Report
The movie ‘Mayar Janjal’ starring Aupee Karim has made its way to the official selection of the prestigious Shanghai International Film Festival in China through the official selection of the Asian New Talent Awards.
The English name of this film, a joint production of two Bengals is ‘Debris of Desire’. Through this festival the discussed film is going to get its world premiere.
Three characters is played by Aupee Karim and Paran Bandyopadhyay and Ritwick Chakraborty from Kolkata. This is the first work of the three together. And it was directed by Indranil Roy Chowdhury, the famous director of ‘Foring’ in India.
The Shanghai Film Festival will be inaugurated on July 25. On the first day, ‘Mayar Janjal’ will be screened for the first time in Hall Three of SFC Shanghai Film Art Center. Besides, two more screenings of the film will be held on July 29 and August 1 at different venues.
The festival will run until August 3 in Xinjiang, Qinghai Province. This is due to the number of corona infected and dead being less than other places in China.
Jasim Ahmed, the producer of the film, said, “The head of the Asian New Talent Awards confirmed the news in an email. Since then, there has been a lot of busyness behind DCP delivery and other formalities.
However, we are very happy that our film is going to be premiered at an A-grade festival. Now it’s time to take the audience back to the movies!”
No international jury is being invited to this year’s event in Shanghai due to the coronavirus epidemic. So this time the shortlisted pictures have been announced as the official selection of the Asian New Talent Award.
The Asian New Talent Awards usually awards Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematographer.
But this time every selected film is being honored as an official selection. Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, the producers-directors and actors of ‘Mayar Janjal’ could not be invited to Shanghai. However, they will promote the film during the festival.
The Shanghai International Film Festival has been held since 1993. Only 15 festivals in the world are listed in the A-grade list of the International Federation of Film Producers (FIAP). Shanghai is one of them.
Aupee Karim, one of the leading actresses in Bangladesh, worked for the big screen after 15 years through ‘Mayar Janjal’. Her character’s name in the film is Soma. The girl is from Kolkata.
She is married. Her family has her husband and only child. However, the husband is unemployed. For this reason, Soma worked at the house of veteran actor Paran Bandyopadhyay to teach her child who is in English medium. Her husband Chandu is played by Ritwick Chakraborty, a popular actor from Kolkata.
The screenplay of the film is based on two short stories by Manik Bandyopadhyay, ‘Bishakto Prem’ and ‘Subala’. At the end of the story, the two short stories match at the same point.
