All directors are collaborating to make the single one film on passing time: Goutam Ghose

  "It looks like all of us filmmakers me and others working towards one goal. The documentation of passing time and history. The chronicling of time," Goutam, whose under-production film is themed on the irrelevance of drawing an unrealistic boundary line artificially dividing two nations, tells IBNS on the sidelines of an album launch here.

The 'Paar' director's previous films, including the last one 'Sunyo Awnko' on the war between Maoists and the state, had always attempted to chronicle some period - contemporary or the 19th century rural Bengal frequented by Bauls.

      "We are all individualistic. Each and every effort of us is based on how we see the happenings in and around us. But aren't all films act as mirror of society? In some way or the other. If we watch them closely you will find a resonance," he said.

Our subjects and styles may be different, our camera work may be different. But together we all are making the same garland of time, we are trying to strike a dialogue with the audienc," he said.

"It is like hundreds of poets having penned hundreds of verses for ages. But all are in quest of freezing the time and reflecting the time. So if you look at it that way for centuries all the poets have been penning that singular poem (whose some of the lines we know, some other lines other readers know. But all know the soul). It is true about films and it is true about poems, as both are allied and it is true of any work of art," he said.

The thinker director, whose idea for Sankhochil came up during one of the numerous visits to the Indo-Bangla border and discovering how a river plays an imaginary demarcation line in one stretch, said as he gazed at birds flying across boundary without any passport or visa, he felt how fettered were common people when the sword of partition mutilates their small, familiar world.

"None but Bumba could portray with so much conviction the role of a commoner, living in a border village and stricken by the ghost of partition," he said.

Goutam, the documentary maker on Kanika Bandyopadhyay's life Mohor, also commended the interplay of imagery and verses in 'Tomaar Sange Praaner Khela'  album on poems of Rajatsubhra Majumder.

"These are themed on love which is incomplete with pains," he said.

Another album 'Jekhaane Holo Naa Khela' also on the poet's lyrical compositions has been rendered by singer Piku Brahma and Rabindra Sangeet exponents Jayati Bhattacharya and Srabani Sen.