ONCE UPON A TIME IN CALCUTTA
synopsis
After the loss of her daughter, Ela not only loses her identity as a mother, but also the only reason to be with her husband. When she is refused a home loan by the bank, her boss, owner of a massive Ponzi scheme, makes her an offer she struggles to accept. Ela reconnects with her stepbrother to reclaim her half of an old family theatre, but he refuses, blaming Ela for his own dark fate. In between all this, Ela’s childhood sweetheart resurfaces and gives her the warmth and hope for a new beginning. Just as Ela starts living the life she had dreamed for herself, she realises that she isn’t the only scavenger in the city brimming with hunger.
international title: | Once Upon A Time in Calcutta |
original title: | Once Upon A Time in Calcutta |
country: | India, France, Norway |
year: | 2021 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
film run: | 131' |
screenplay: | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
cast: | Sreelekha Mitra, Shayak Roy, Bratya Basu, Arindam Ghosh, Satrajit Sarkar, Anirban Chakrabarti, Reetika Nondini Sheemu |
cinematography by: | Gökhan Tiryaki |
film editing: | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
art director: | Jonaki Bhattacharya |
costumes designer: | Jonaki Bhattacharya |
music: | Minco Eggersman |
producer: | Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Vikram Mohinta, Jonaki Bhattacharya, Anshulika Dubey, Priyanka Agarwal, Shashwat Singh, Ingrid Lill Hogtun, Marie Fuglestein Lægreid, Linda Bolstad Strönen, Catherine Dussart |
production: | CDP - Catherine Dussart Productions, DUOfilm AS, For Films (IN), Wishberry Films (IN) |