Abdul
Gani
Guwahati:
After an invitation to the prestigious Producers’ Lab organised by the Cinemart
International Film Festival of Rotterdam 2012, budding Assamese filmmaker Khanjan
Kishore Nath’s project, The Bicycle, has been selected for Mumbai Mantra
Screenplay Lab now. It is the first Assamese film to be invited to Rotterdam
Festival.
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| Khanjan Kishore Nath |
The filmmaker is now waiting for crowdfunding for
production. It was also selected for Goa Film Bazaar organised by the
International Film Festival of India.
“This film is now at its pre-production stage. The
script is complete. All that it needs is financial help. Unfortunately, we have
not been able to collect funds as yet. Now, we have applied to various global
film funding bodies and waiting for their response,” director Nath told Seven
Sisters Post.
According to this concept, anybody providing a
little amount of money will be eligible to become a co-producer of the film.
This concept is quite new in India, and no one has tried it in in Assam so far.
“In crowdfunding, a film may have 1,000 producers.
We are trying to do something new in Assamese film industry. For my film,
anybody who is interested can be a co-producer of the project by paying a sum
of Rs5,000. The profits and responsibility will be shared by all the parties
involved,” he said.
However, so far, he has not been lucky enough to get
the required funds of around Rs50 lakh for the film.
“As it is a new concept for us, people are not aware
of this. The positive side of this move is that it is now selected for Mumbai
Mantra Script Lab Collaboration with Sundance Institute for the first round.
Let’s see what happens in next round,” Nath, who has made several short films
prior to this, said.
The spirited filmmaker is also hopeful of releasing
the film globally. “When I was in Goa with my project a lot of foreign
distributors and sales agents showed interest towards my project. If everything
goes well, I’m hopeful of releasing it abroad. We should now think beyond our
geographical existence. I strongly believe that we can win the world through
our regional language films if we have a good story in hand, because there is a
huge market outside and they are looking for good films, not language,” he
added.
A diehard fan of Iranian way of filmmaking, Nath
said that if the story is told in creative and sensitive way the global viewers
could be won.
“Through my film, I am trying to do the same. My
story is also very simple yet interesting. The story telling is simple with
rich visual verities. Through this film, I am going to give a new experience to
the Assamese film history. I would like to prove that if you have a good story
with good script, language is not a bar to conquer the world,” he added.
It is a story about childhood desires, dream and
relationship among children, but the director feels that it would work on the
minds of adults as well. (Seven Sisters
Post)
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