What if sharing a name with a legend became your prison? Identity, obsession, and one very meta nightmare.
Selfie is a film that portrays the multi-dimensional relation between a hero and a commoner. Soumitra Chatterjee, the iconic personality of Indian cinema comes across a guy who is his namesake. The second Soumitra Chatterjee is jeered at by people at different stages of his life. Worse, his fiancee seeks in his presence traces of the iconic Soumitra Chatterjee. His only solace remains in his own ventriloquist persona. Simultaneously, the legendary Soumitra Chatterjee meets the attractive woman who happens to be young Soumitra's love interest, but secretly pines for the old and famous Soumitra. The famous Soumitra has a bizarre dream in which this girl appears in a reality show called The BIG BOSS. He talks about this show in a television interview. The finale is a complex web of fantasy and reality involving these three protagonists.
Acting
Soumitra Chatterjee playing himself — meta-mastery.
Writing
Blurred realities that question who owns a name.
Direction
Bold structural risks that mostly pay off.
Director
Sovan Tarafder
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Soumitra Chatterjee was Satyajit Ray's favorite leading man, making his self-portrait here a landmark in Indian cinema's mirror-phase.
The Big Boss reference isn't random — Indian reality TV's obsession with manufactured intimacy directly fuels the film's surreal finale.
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