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.
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