Aastha

On his way to an audition, Soumya, an aspiring singer, spots his wife making merry at a cafe with an unknown man, at a time she was supposedly at her workplace. Enraged and determined to exact vengeance, he returns home and waits for her to come back. However, a friend of his turns up before her. What happens next...? A neo-noir cum psychological thriller which journeys into the deep abyss of human mind.

  • Samman Roy
    Director
  • Samman Roy & Debanjan Majhi
    Writer
  • Samman Roy
    Producer
  • Joy Banerjee, Chandni Saha, Sharonyo Banerjee
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 5, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Bengali
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Samman Roy

Samman Roy, completed his Bachelors in Engineering from Kolkata and worked with a renowned IT Company in Pune, before moving to filmmaking. While pursuing a short-term film-making course from IMI, Pune, he got an offer from the Mumbai-based media house TVF. He quickly joined as an assistant in the Art Direction Department and worked there for a few months. After that he came back to Kolkata and made several short films, music videos, ad films and also a feature film which is currently in the post-production stage. "Aastha" is his debut directorial short film. He is also associated with teaching filmmaking in one of the renowned universities of West Bengal.
His movie-making influences include the likes of Krzystof Kieslowski, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Asghar Farhadi, Francis Ford Coppola, Satyajit Ray among others.

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