An Irrelevant Dialogue

An Irrelevant Dialogue

33 mins | Drama | Sept. 29, 2019

An octogenarian couple, Shankar & Ila Bagchi, lives a life of isolation confined in one room of a big, empty and time-worn house in a city. Apprehensive of their future and unwilling to suffer a deteriorated life, they write to the President of India, pleading guilty of what they believe to be a crime they have committed and asking for mercy. While awaiting the consequences, they try out desperate measures to fulfil their long-cherished wish. Inspired from a true story, this film explores the life of the couple, through contemplative aesthetics, who exhausted by their present, pursue a shared belief that challenges the status quo.

An Irrelevant Dialogue

33 mins | Drama | Sept. 29, 2019

An Irrelevant Dialogue
An octogenarian couple, Shankar & Ila Bagchi, lives a life of isolation confined in one room of a big, empty and time-worn house in a city. Apprehensive of their future and unwilling to suffer a deteriorated life, they write to the President of India, pleading guilty of what they believe to be a crime they have committed and asking for mercy. While awaiting the consequences, they try out desperate measures to fulfil their long-cherished wish. Inspired from a true story, this film explores the life of the couple, through contemplative aesthetics, who exhausted by their present, pursue a shared belief that challenges the status quo.
Producers Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
Original title এক অপ্রাসঙ্গিক সংলাপ
Directors Moinak Guho
Writers Moinak Guho

Cast

Kalyan Chatterjee

as Shankar Bagchi

Maya Ghosh

as Ila Bagchi