19-year-old city boy makes film on how people of our generation live dual lives

‘

Synthetic Sati

’, a film offering visual splendour, matured cinematography, strong script, captivating performances by

Souraseni Maitra

, Kheya Chattopadhyay, Prantik Banerjee and Gargee Banerjee, was recently filmed by a 19-year-old budding filmmaker

Rishav Ghosh

backed by a team of young assistant directors. The film is produced by Pinaki Ghosh and Sonali Ghosh of Power Publishers & Motion Pictures.

‘Synthetic Sati’ is quite an uncommon title and keeps one wondering what it actually mean. However, Rishav says it’s a story of how people of our generation live dual lives; one real, one virtual; one organic, and one synthetic. And the character of 'Synthetic Sati' is a representation of these inorganic times.

Without any spoiler, the young filmmaker also gave the story outline of the film: “Paro (Sauraseni Maitra) becomes a complete social outcast after her ex-boyfriend spreads allegations against her on social media. With no support from her workaholic mother and being at an all-time low, her only support is a new virtual friend with a pseudonym of

'Synthetic Sati' whom she meets through an anonymous messaging app. While Paro's friendship with the virtual friend Synthetic Sati deepens, she also simultaneously starts liking Mahamaya (Kheya Chattapadhay), a girl from her class; not knowing what she is headed for.”

Interestingly, there are several big names associated with this project like Souraseni Maitra, Kheya Chattopadhyay and Prantik Banerjee as actors, Madhura Palit as cinematographer, who is the only woman cinematographer from India to be awarded in Cannes film festival, popular singer Paloma Majumder sang the only song in the movie, Amir Mondal is editing this film, renowned makeup artist Suman Ganguli handled the hair and makeup, even sound recordist Tapan Sardar has huge experience and has worked with Satyajit Ray and in recent projects like ‘Amazon Ovijaan’, ‘Yeti Ovijaan’, ‘Debi’, etc.