Bhubaneswar: Odia filmmaker Amartya Bhattacharyya’s ‘Khyanika-The Lost Idea’ will be screened at Zsigmond Vilmos International Film Festival in Szeged, Hungary.
It is the only Indian film to be screened at the festival, which begins on May 9.
Produced under the banner of Swastik Arthouse, the film features Amrita Choudhury as ‘Idea’ and Susant Misra and Swastik Choudhury as aspiring painter and poet respectively.
Choudhury Bikash Das plays a mad man while Hrushikesh Bhoi, who earlier essayed the role of Kansa in Bargarh Dhanu Jatra, portrays ‘Fate’.
Ollywood diva Anu Choudhury has a guest appearance in the film.
“Contextually, the film is extremely relevant in the present day when people are obsessed about copyright to stake claim over ideas. An idea is a free stream of consciousness, only its expression can be copyrighted. In my film, I’ve personified ‘Idea’ and portrayed it as a free-flowing spirit, which can neither be tamed, nor possessed,” said Bhattacharyya.
The 89-minute-long feature film has been shot in Puri and Bhubaneswar with a DSLR camera.
The film had earlier won rave reviews at Hidden Gems Film Festival in Calgary, Mosaic South Asian Film Festival 2017 at Mississaunga, Ontario, in Canada and Cardiff International Film Festival, UK.
