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Prosenjit Chatterjee and Atanu Ghosh are coming together for Sesh Pata

Prosenjit Chatterjee and filmmaker Atanu Ghosh are collaborating once more after working on much-appreciated films like Mayurakshi and Robibaar. The duo just released the post for their upcoming film Sesh Pata which revolves around a formerly well-known writer named Balmiki (Prosenjit Chatterjee), who lives in obscurity stripped of dignity and respect. A year ago, a publishing house gave Balmiki an advance of forty thousand rupees to write about his wife, who was murdered thirty years ago. Despite repeated requests, Balmiki fails to deliver even a single page of the manuscript.
To recover the writing, the publishing house engages Sounak (Vikram Chatterjee), a young debt recovery agent. Balmiki tells Sounak he cannot write due to ill health. Sounak engages a middle-aged woman named Medha (Gargee Roy Chowdhury), to write down what Balmiki dictates. A moody, evasive and impulsive Balmiki quickly drives Medha into chaos.
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Interestingly, the last page of Balmiki’s writing holds a lot of surprises. Atanu says, “Pay off your debt, and you are a free man. That’s a common saying. But debt or loan is not restricted to money only. It can be anything under the sun. Debt, its repayment and the sense of freedom arising thereof are the three pillars of the film. The film explores the mental and emotional costs of debt and how it affects both the giver and the receiver. Besides, I was interested in exploring the mental and emotional state of a distressed writer who can only regain his lost dignity and honour by repaying an unusual debt.”

"In Shesh Pata, the script is so deeply intricate and intensely unpredictable that you get the scope for giving your best. As an ageing author who has suffered miserably in life, the character alternates radically between abject frustration and impotent rage to tender vulnerability and profound humanism. It was indeed an exhilarating challenge to steer such a nuanced character with multiple layers of hues and shades through believable expressions of complexity, emotion and sensitivity,” says Prosenjit.




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Ruman Ganguly

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