INTRODUCTION:
Actor: Agony: Ecstasy – a Triptych is a live action feature film consisting three independent short stories within it. The stories are not connected to each other in any ways, but weaved with different characters, different series of events and different settings. The first story, ACTOR: Children of Heaven (published as an Assamese short story in Autumn Special Issue of Dainik Asom, September 2009 as Krishna Gosain or Lord Krishna), is a story of an ignorant little boy, very much ordinary and overlooked in everyday social lives becoming the actor of the lord Krishna in a very much important cultural phenomena of the village. The second story, AGONY: The Persistence of Becoming, is set in an outskirt of a city, centering a poor little girl from the roadside dwellers, eventually becoming a part of an ad-film making unit. The third one, ECSTASY: The Pursuit of Performance, is a story of a little boy and a little girl with their desires to participate in an important cultural event.
Though they are different in mode, there are some thin connections within. All of them are carrying some inner psychological aspirations of a child. Secondly all of them in a way or other narrate a story of becoming or the preparation for becoming.
The first story is of ‘becoming’, an ‘ordinary of the everyday’ to a bizarre of some ‘spectacular’ or ‘grandiose’. It also portrays a situation of cast operation in a village what is invisible in the everyday lives but occurs in a specific cultural production. Meanwhile it also narrates the economic stagnancy of a rural village despite of a milieu of cultural extravaganza. The second story is directly associated with the issues around globalization, global market policies and the dreams made by them. It is about how the scopophilic media offers a dream to a lower class subject and leads his/her life. The third one is, thus, of aspirations produced by the cultural phenomena. However, in all of the stories we see somebody getting prepared for something.
WORKING TITLE:
Actor: Agony: Ecstasy – a Triptych
(ACTOR aka Children of HeavenAGONY aka The Persistence of Becoming
ECSTASY aka The Pursuit of Performance)
GENRE: Comedy | Drama
LANGUAGE: Assamese, (English subtitles)
RUNTIME: 100 Minutes.
TARGET RELEASE (expected): October 2010
COUNTRY: India
STORY, SCREENPLAY AND DIRECTION: Samudra Kajal Saikia
CASTING: To be locked by June
MUSIC: To be recorded by June
CONTACT:
Samudra Kajal Saikia
Creative Director, Kathputlee Animation Studios
B-239. West Vinod Nagar, Patparganj, New Delhi 110092
e-mail: Kankhowa@gmail.com
mobile: +91 9811370754
PRODUCTION: KanKhowa (also seeking for enthusiast co-producers and financers)
PLOT SUMMARY:
The first story, Children of Heaven is a story of an ignorant little boy, very much ordinary and overlooked in everyday social lives becoming the actor of the lord Krishna in a very much important cultural phenomena of the village. The second story, The Persistence of Becoming, is set in an outskirt of a city, centering a poor little girl from the roadside dwellers, eventually becoming a part of an ad-film making unit. The third one, The Pursuit of Performance, is a story of a little boy and a little girl with their desires to participate in an important cultural event.
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