Ananth Narayan Mahadevan’s Busan International Film Festival selection “The Storyteller,” based on a short story by Oscar-winning Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, isn’t “…
Film enthusiast Tapobrati Das Sammaddar recommended Ray’s story “Golpo Boliye Tarini Khuro” to Mahadevan, who was “instantly fascinated by the layered social satire.” The story follows an unpublished Bengali storyteller who answers a help ad from a Gujarati businessman who suffers from insomnia, and there is a twist in the tale.
“If one claimed that the film would be a homage/tribute, then it called for an emulation of the master’s style. And yet in an age where cinema has transformed into ‘the camera being used like a broom’ – to quote Bertolucci – I couldn’t risk the popular accusation of looking ‘outdated.
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