A madly-in-love Hindu girl and Muslim boy flee persecution in their village and begin a new life in the city, compelled to live on the open pavements like countless migrants. But their minds are captivated by a throne-like armchair in an exquisite showroom right beside their settlement on which they dream to sit together one day as king and queen. Barred from even stepping inside the showroom because of their social status, they make a promise to gift each other that seat of power as a token of their love. Leading harsh lives as a van-puller and a housemaid they stake everything to attain their seemingly impossible dream. Tempted by wealth, intellectualism and power they venture into the extremes of the society from the depths of its dark criminal underbelly to the heights of its bright elite upper crust. Unfazed by socio-political unrest, religious disharmony, rampant misinformation spreading on social media and rising threat of displacement of the dispossessed, their minds fly on wings of desire like moths drawn to fire. Will their desire destroy their love? Or can they rise from their own ashes like a phoenix and transform their desired seat of power into a seat of love?
Set in the heart of the bustling City of Joy, Kolkata, 'Mon Potongo' (Mind Flies) is an ode to the flight of desire - amoral, relentless, and unrestrained. Through the perspective of its ambitious working class protagonists who encounter an ensemble of characters from different tiers of society, the film not only explores both the dark underbelly and the dazzling elite society of a South Asian Metropolis but also the darkest and brightest sides of human desire as if weaving a fairy tale with the threads of social realism.
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synopsis
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film details
- Name of the Film:
- Mon Potongo (Mind Flies)
- Director:
- Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha Maiti
- Language:
- Bengali (with English Subtitles)
- Producer:
- Anjan Bose, Aurora Film Corporation, India
- Executive Producer:
- Prateek Bagi
- Production Company:
- Aurora Film Corporation, India
- Music:
- Avijit Kundu
- Writer:
- Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha Maiti
- Cinematographer:
- Rana Pratap Karforma
- Editor:
- Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha Maiti
- Cast:
- Subhankar Mohanta, Baishakhi Roy, Seema Biswas, Joy Sengupta, Amit Saha, Anindita Ghosh, Tribikram Ghosh, Tannistha Biswas, Janardan Ghosh
- Song Composition and Lyrics:
- Rajdeep Paul
- Sound Designer:
- Adeep Singh Manki
- Sound Mix:
- Anindit Roy (CAS)
- Post Producer, VFX Director, Colorist:
- Kaushik Ray
- Production Design:
- Senjeet Halder
- Duration:
- 147 min
- Production Year:
- 2022
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