Dostojee, set in the aftermath of the the Babri Masjid demolition and the Bombay bombings, tells the story of a friendship between two boys who belong to conflicting religious communities. The boys, Safikul, the son of a Muslim weaver, and Palash, the son of a Hindu Brahmin, live in a remote village in West Bengal near the India-Bangladesh border. Their friendship is suffused with a beautiful innocence that belies the harsh realities that fate has in store for them.
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Festival Appearances
BFI London Film Festival 2022
Göteborg Film Festival 2022
Nara International Film Festival 2022 – Golden SHIKA Award
International Film Festival of Kerala 2022
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Prasun Chatterjee
Prasun Chatterjee is a self-taught filmmaker, born to a lower middle class refugee family in the suburbs of Kolkata. He did group theatre for six years before shooting his first short film, Shades (2017), which premiered at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala and screened in several other film festivals. Prasun has spent a major part of his adult life wandering the remote villages of West Bengal along the India-Bangladesh border and has closely experienced the lives of its villagers. These experiences formed the basis of Dostojee, his first feature film.
Thu, 3 Nov | 2:00 pm | Main Audi
