Two strangers, one dead zone, zero escape from what they find in the silence.
Travelling from the big city, Biplab Sen, a middle-aged civil engineer, and his young project assistant Bhaskar Mitra, have been assigned the responsibility of hunting a location for a new resort in an exotic, remote mountain range. With barely any phone network in the places they travel to, the two men with vastly different personalities develop a new-found friendship.
Acting
Prosenjit's understated ache of a performance.
Cinematography
Mountains as silent third character.
Writing
Dialogue that trusts silence to do heavy lifting.
Director
Chandrasish Ray
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Prosenjit Chatterjee, a Bengali megastar, took a massive pay cut for this indie. He reportedly stayed in character's rumpled clothes between takes.
The film quietly critiques Bengal's tourism gentrification—resorts displacing indigenous communities, shot in actual threatened Sikkim locations.
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