Other films charted for screening are Leena Manimikelai’s memoir ‘Kaathadi (Kite)’ her most awaited film simply for the most exquisite experience of the process marrying poetry, dance and improvisations; and Sharad Raj’s ‘Weekdays and Weekends’, a light-hearted flick on young couplehood within friendship and its overbearing complications.
Actress Arpita Banerjee of Vijay Jayapal’s ‘Revelations’ fame (released on Netflix, Mubi, Cinemapreneur after a successful festival run (Busan, MAMI, IFFI, IFFK, NYSAF, etc in 2016) is finally set to be seen in at least 3 different films in promising roles waiting to be screened in 2023 after a ‘dry period’, as she calls the invisible years of seeding and growing including many failures, criticisms, ill-health and delays.
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“’Calcutta, I’m Sorry’ by Harry Maclure, a film on hope and forgiveness, is close to my heart as it earned me a real family. Narrated in 2017 and on floor from May 2018 till date as it is paving its way to release following festivals by mid-year, it has been an incredible journey with twists and turns. Today as it stands, the makers might be my 1st collaboration in my directorial debut!”
Other films charted for screening are Leena Manimikelai’s memoir ‘Kaathadi (Kite)’ her most awaited film simply for the most exquisite experience of the process marrying poetry, dance and improvisations; and Sharad Raj’s ‘Weekdays and Weekends’, a light-hearted flick on young couplehood within friendship and its overbearing complications.
Talking of her main objective in life Arpita says, “I love variety within loops that we get stuck in. Remaining curious eternally even about the brainwashed stuff is the only way we find out the truth. And what can’t be seen in darkness and gloom can be recreated into an invisible dancing light like a foetus in a womb. This seems to be found only in art that knows no boundaries. I come from that idealistic school of thought. If we could reach a dystopia creating discrimination, imagine our power of turning it into a utopia if we united? My position as a storyteller is as sublime as it is reflective.”
Arpita’s professional journey started with Manav Kaul’s play ‘Laal Pencil’ in 2012 starring Vicky Kaushal where she played the protagonist. She performed at Prithvi theatre, NCPA, Andrew’s, Sophaya’s in Mumbai, Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, Chinmaya Mission in New Delhi, Gyan Manch in Kolkata among prestigious venues with various theatre productions.
Being a Bharatanatyam and jazz contemporary dancer and trained in semi-classical Hindustani & Rabindra Sangeet singing, performing arts have been Arpita’s abiding identity and coping mechanism since childhood.
Arpita's unreleased films that won awards and accolades in festivals include Akshay Singh’s ‘Pinky Beauty Parlour’ & Soumi Saha’s ‘Dhuusar’ starring Vinay Pathak and Ritwick Bhowmick. She can be seen in Sidhharth Jatla's 'Love and Shukla' in a cameo role running on Netflix. She briefly worked as a journalist with CNBC-TV18 & Millennium Post.
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