Bengali honest film Duyare Bibaho, written, shot and directed by Amitabha Chaterji, continues its pageant gallop after taking allotment at the celebrated NFDC Film Bazaar at some stage within the International Film Festival of India in November 2025.
The film is now attach of residing to participate at the Kerala Film Market below the International Film Festival of Kerala, scheduled to be held from December 13 to 16. A darkly amusing yet deeply unsettling satire, the film imagines a metropolis the attach loneliness is declared a civic challenge and the authorities responds with a plan that delivers marriage to voters’ doorsteps. Two brokers transfer through neighbourhoods persuading the lonely to wed – ceaselessly gently, ceaselessly through manipulation – turning intimacy accurate into a bureaucratic thunder.
What within the origin performs out as absurd humour slowly finds a stressful reality, the attach companionship is now not any longer a non-public replace nonetheless a sigh-mandated diagram, and marriage becomes mere documentation to enlighten one’s existence. The film facets performances by Deshaa Nandii, Amrita Mukhopadhyay, Partha Sarathi Chandra, and Jagannath Chakraborty, whose restrained portrayals floor the film’s excessive-thought premise in lived emotion.
Amitabha Chaterji
Identified for his contemplative and socially incisive cinema, Chaterji makes use of soundless procedures, rehearsed politeness and day to day routines to blur the motorway between comedy and unease, elevating an pressing rely upon about how a long way governance can intervene into non-public lives below the guise of welfare. As the film opens to contemporary audiences, Duyare Bibaho stands out as a neatly timed reflection on loneliness, alter and the soundless violence of methods that search to control human connection.
