Vakratunda Swaha
In 1997, I filmed a sequence - a friend immersing an idol of Ganesha at Chowpati beach, Bombay on the last day of the Ganapati festival. A year later, he committed suicide. After twelve years, I completed the film. Using his footage as the leitmotif, this film is a requiem to a dead friend.
2010, 35mm, Color, 21 minutes.

*Catalog of Gallery Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai*

Credits
Directed, Produced & Written by: Ashish Avikunthak
Cast: Girish Dahiwale, Debu Pramanik, Ashish Avikunthak,
Swapan Pramanik, Radhika Apte
Cinematography: Setu, Manoj Peter, Indranil Mukherjee,
Lalit Tiwari, Praveen K. Bangari, Arindam Bhattacharjee,
Anirudh Garbyal
Sound: Preetam Das
Editing: Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Associate Director: Moloy Mukherjee

Selected Festivals
2011 Human Frames, Kunst-im-Tunnel, Düsseldorf
2011 You Don’t Belong: Pasts and Futures of Indian Cinema, Beijing,
2011 Zacheta National Gallery for Art, Warsaw
2011 Paris-Delhi-Bombay, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
2011 Rotterdam International Film Festival
2010 Hamburg International Short Film Festival
2010 Jordon Short Film Festival
2010 Gallery Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai

Distribution
Lightcone, Paris