Bengali movie 'Borunbabur Bondhu' to be screened at Cincinnati film festival

    Kolkata, Jun 20 (PTI) Bengali feature film 'Borunbabur
Bondhu', directed by Anik Dutta, will be screened at the
prestigious Indian Film Festival Of Cincinnati.
    Dutta said that he was informed by the authorities
that the movie has made the cut to the Cincinnati festival.
    The film tells the story of an elderly man, whose
secluded world goes topsy-turvy after people come to know that
a VVIP who was once his friend, is coming for a visit.
    "I got a mail from Uma Da Cunha, the festival curator,
informing me that the nomination for 'Borunbabur Bondhu' has
been accepted by its Executive Director," director Anik Dutta
told PTI on Saturday.
    The screening of the film at the Indian Film Festival
Of Cincinnati is scheduled to be held in October, if the
pandemic situation permits.
    The Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati is the only
Indian film festival in the US state of Ohio. The festival
screens feature, documentary and short films made in and about
the South Asian subcontinent and its people.
    "We got an overwhelming response from the audience in
Kolkata before lockdown and I hope other audiences would like
it too," Dutta, the maker of acclaimed films such as 'Bhooter
Bhobisyot' and 'Aschorjo Prodip', said.
    Starring Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Madhabi Mukherjee,
Kaushik Sen, Ritwick Chakraborty and others, 'Borunbabur
Bondhu' was running in theatres of Kolkata when the lockdown
was imposed in March.
    The movie has been screened at the 25th Kolkata
International Film Festival and the prestigious Third Eye
Asian Film Festival, Mumbai. PTI SUS SBN
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