India’s Venice-Winning For Films Reveals Future Slate (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran For Films, producer of “Labour of Love,” which won best debut for director Aditya Vikram Sengupta at the 2014 Venice Film Festival, has revealed a robust slate.Other films from the company include Rotterdam selection “Jonaki” (2018) and Venice selection “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta” (2021), both directed by Sengupta.For Films is now actively developing three different kinds of projects, set in very different worlds.
It has also expanded from Bengali-language films into the Hindi and English languages in an attempt to reach the widest possible audience.One of the projects, with the working title “Death of an Elephant,” is a Hindi-language period piece based on a short story by renowned Bengali author, Tarasankhar Bandopadhyay, to be directed by Sengupta.
The film is set in North India and requires an ensemble star cast. Discussions are on with cast. Several of Bandopadhyay’s works have been adapted as films, including “The Music Room” (1958) by Satyajit Ray.
Another Hindi-language project, also to be directed by Sengupta, is about his personal relationship with magic growing up in the 1980s and 90s in Calcutta, when the city was hailed as the Magic Capital of India.
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