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Multiplex - Screen 3
27/11/2006 @ 03:00:00 P.M

The Bong Connection - Asia Premiere

Language: English

Program: Film India Worldwide

Director: Anjan Dutt

Length: 2006, 35mm, Colour, 130 mins

Screenplay: Anjan Dutt

Producer: Joy B Ganguly

Cinematographer: Indranil Mukherjee

Music: Neel Dutt

Sound: Abhijit Roy

Cast: Shayan Munshi, Raima Sen, Parambrata Chattopadhay, Peeya Rai Chaudhury, Victor Banerjee

Production Company: Moxie Entertainment Pvt Ltd

Website: www.thebongconnection.com

Print Source: Moxie Entertainments (P) Ltd, 50 Chowringhee Road 10th Floor, Block B Kolkata 700 071 Tel: (91 33) 3048 0006, 3048 0007 Fax: (91 33) 3048 0008

Director Biography: ‘Actor, singer, composer and filmmaker Anjan Dutt, born 1954 in Kolkata, India, left journalism for acting, triggered by his debut role in Mrinal Sen’s ‘Chaalchitra’ (1981) winning an award at Venice. He has since been cast by Mrinal Sen, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Goutam Ghose, Roland Joffe and Nicholas Klotz. After writing/directing numerous telefilms, Dutt made his first feature film ‘Bada Din’ in 1997 followed by ‘Bow Barracks Forever’ in 2004.

Awards And Participation: Osian’s Cinefan, New Delhi

Synopsis: ‘The Bong Connection,’ in Bengali mixed with English and shot in Kolkata and Houston, is a good-natured satire around the Bengali community as seen in these two polarised cities. The film follows two young men in search of their personal aspirations and destiny. Computer engineer Apu (Parambrata Chattopadhyay) is tired of Kolkata and bemons its future. He moves to the US hoping to make a better life for himself. Andy (Shayan Munshi), a young Bengali musician raised in New York, journeys to Kolkata hoping to imbibe its rich language and culture and link with his grandfather. The story of two young men trying to achieve their dreams in a foreign land. For one, Kolkata is dying and stagnant. For the other, Kolkata is still the mecca of culture and arts. Two stories that run parallel, eratically, never quite merging, yet colliding. In the end they discover their true place of belonging, wiser and more mature, after tasting life on both sides of this global world.