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Bultir Result

Residing in Badkulla, a township in Bengal with her family, Bulti is a small town girl who is brilliant in studies.Beyond her expectations she manages to score the highest marks in the West Bengal board examination. This creates a roaring buzz as a "small town girl" from an unrecognised school has beaten the"scholars" from all the renowned English medium schools of Kolkata. From local sources, media representatives of a popular News Channel follow the story and without any delay,they visit Bulti's school only to take her along to their studio, located in Kolkata. Bulti's father tags along.
What follows is a series of craze and madness that takes place in the news studio while back in Batkulla it's a chaotic day of celebration & festivity in Bulti's residence, school & neighbourhood.The story culminates as the tiring day of Bulti and her father comes to an end with a happy realisation.

  • Pinaki Sarkar
    Director
  • Pinaki Sarkar
    Writer
  • Ritajaya Banerjee
    Producer
  • Shyamoupti Mudly
    Key Cast
    "Bulti"
  • Abhijit Guha
    Key Cast
    "Nitya Biswas"
  • Dola Chakraborty
    Key Cast
    "Mrs.Biswas"
  • Aritra Dutta
    Key Cast
    "Utpal"
  • Sudeshna Basu
    Key Cast
    "Chhanda"
  • Pinaki Sarkar
    Key Cast
    "Nikhil"
  • Anindya Sain
    Key Cast
    "Rajat"
  • Pinaki Sarkar
    Cinematography
  • Ritajaya Banerjee
    Editing
  • Shashank Jha
    Colorist & VFX Artist
  • Shishir Chousalkar
    Sound Design
  • Protijyoti Ghosh
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    বুল্টির রেসাল্ট
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 56 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 5, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    24,450 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Bengali
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
    Semi - Finalist
  • Independent Talents International Film Festival
    Bloomington, Indiana
    United States
    Finalist - World Cinema
  • Dada Saheb Phalke International Film Festival
    Mumbai
    India
    Nomination
  • Guwahati Childrens Internation Film Festival
    Guwahati, Assam
    India
    January 21, 2019
    Indian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Ahmedabad International Children Film Festival, 2019
    Ahmedabad, Gujrat
    India
    February 2, 2019
    Official Selection
  • International Children Film Festival Bangladesh
    Dhaka
    Bangladesh
    March 5, 2019
    Bangladeshi Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Virgin Spring Cinefest 2019
    Kolkata
    India
    Award Winner - Best Family/Children Film Category
  • Cult Critic Movie Awards 2019
    Kolkata
    India
    Award Winner - Best Family/Children Film Category
  • Lift Off Sessions
    Pinewood
    United Kingdom
    Official Selection
  • Gold Movie Awards
    London
    United Kingdom
    January 10, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Beyond Earth Film Festival
    Kolkata
    India
    March 23, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Open Window Film Challenge
    Kolkata
    India
    February 23, 2019
    Award Winner - Best Regional Film
  • London Bengali Film Festival 2019
    London
    United Kingdom
    April 4, 2019
    UK Premiere
    Official Selection & Screening
  • Top Indie Film Awards 2019
    Tokyo
    Japan
    February 1, 2020
    Japanese Premiere
    Nominee Best Feature Film, Best Writing, Best Editing, Best Humor
  • Near Nazareth Film Festival 2019
    Afula
    Israel
    June 3, 2019
    Israeli Premiere
    Semi Finalist
  • Kala Samruddhi International Film Festival 2019
    Mumbai
    India
    June 24, 2019
    Gold Award Winner - Best Chid Actor & Best Cinematographer
  • Jagran Film Festival, Mumbai Edition 2019
    Mumbai
    India
    September 26, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Global Indian Film Festival 2019
    Mumbai
    India
    November 14, 2019
    Award Winner - Best Original Score & Best Feature Film Festival Mention
  • Woodpecker International Film Festival, 2019
    New Delhi
    India
    November 30, 2019
    Award Winner - Best Feature Film on Social Issues
  • LifftIndia Filmotsav 2019
    Lonavala
    India
    December 15, 2019
    Award Winner - Best Childrens Film
  • Santiago Independent Film Awards
    Santiago
    Chile
    November 27, 2019
    Chile Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Waco Family & Faith Film Festival
    Waco, Texas
    United States
    February 10, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Darbhanga International Film Festival
    Darbhanga, Bihar
    India
    February 7, 2020
    Award Winner - Best Editing (National)
Director Biography - Pinaki Sarkar

Mr. Pinaki Sarkar has completed his masters in Physics from Presidency College (University now) and in Engineering from Jadavpur University.
He specializes in Multimedia Development and is an expert in digital technology and modern day film making. Being the director of the ‘Presidency college drama society’ he has written, translated, produced and directed several dramas, ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Rabindranath Tagore.
He has conceptualized and directed reality game show for various national channels directed a daily shop Nil Shimana for Etv Bangla and also worked as Chief Asst. Director in Popular Bengali Serial Protibimbo for years for Zee Bangla.
Since 2007, he moved to Mumbai and started working with Magik Lantern Films, where he had been the associate director as well as the visual effect supervisor for television promotionals and commercials like Reynolds with Sachin Tendulkar, Rupashi Bangla Channel Ident, Dalmia/Konark Cement TVC Commercial etc.
In his decade long career he had been associated with brands like Complan, Volini, Ujala, Reynolds, 7 up, Pepsi, JCB, Godrej SS, Castrol, HUL and many other.
He has worked as a cinematographer for Godrej, Mahindra and Mahindra, Sanofi, JCB, Viacom 18, ICICI and various others.
He is consulting creative director of Indent Production, Mumbai and Sound Motion Entertainment, Kolkata.
He is the Creative Partner at ALTER EGO FILMS, Mumbai and is engaged in Bengali and Hindi feature films as a writer,cinematographer and director.
Media Experience –
Worked as Director, Writer & DOP in HIJLI DETENTION CAMP TO IIT : AN UNTOLD SAGA
Award winning documentary short by Alter Ego Films now streaming in JIOCINEMA (India) & ISA channel in XERB.TV.

Worked as Director, Writer DOP in BULTIR RESULT
A 2019 Dada Saheb Phalke Nominated Bengali Feature Film by Alter Ego Films,
acclaimed and awarded in International & Indian film festival, yet to release in 2020.

Worked as the DOP in 50 YEARS OF FELUDA, RAY’S DETECTIVE
2019 National Award Winning Docu Feature produced by Soundmotion Entertainment.

Wokred as the DOP in MIRZA’S FRIEND GHALIB
An award Winning Short Produced by Stargate Experiences and NEW DELHI TIMES
Now streaming in Amazon Prime Video USA & UK and POCKET FILMS Youtube, India.

Directed Various AVS & Corporate Films for Alter Ego Films
Serving clients like JCB, RED HAT LINUX, HP, CASTROL, ENDURA CEMENT, GODREJ, ICICI, RELIANCE,ZAIN MOBILE, SANOFI, ARAMBAG’S, VISION EYE FOUNDATION, SURF EXCEL, SBI, NICOREX, TATA MOTORS,ORPAT FAN, VIACOM 18, MINDSHARE and many more

Former Media Experience –
Associate Director to Shoubhik Roy for Magik Lantern Films, Mumbai
Creative Director at Ident Production, Kolkata
Episode Director at PROTIBIMBO & NEEL SHIMANA (Bengali Daily Soaps for Zee Bangla)
Concept Designer & Director for MEYE NO.1 (Bengali Reality Show for Aakash Bangla)
Creative Director at ShibaniMunsi Productions, Kolkata

Theatre Experience –
Worked as an Actor in various theatre groups in the following productions
TINER TALOWAR by Utpal Dutt Directed by Rajat Ganguly
BORO PISHIMA by BadaL Sarkar Directed by Ashish Roy
FERARI FAUJ by Utpal Dutt Directed by Rajat Ganguly
GUPI BHAGA by Satyajit Ray Directed by Ashish Roy
Directed & Acted in the following plays for Presidency College Drama Society
SHESH THEKEY SHURU by Shyamakanta Das
KOCHI SAMSAD by Parashuram

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Director Statement

One evening, a friend who was working as an anchor for a live TV show, got back from his work disgruntled. All day he’d worked with this topper kid, who was on the floor filming, without any food and rest. Just thinking about how pitiless the media can be really bothered me. And that was the real-life inspiration behind the story of Bultir Result.
We did try to get the film financed, but unfortunately we did not meet enough people who were as invested in the idea as I was. The potential financers wanted the film to have a more commercial angle or selling points like an action scene , or a romantic angle which will give scope of romantic songs or a huge star cast regardless of the requirement of the script.
But me and my wife Ritajaya Banerjee, the producer and editor of the film, we were not ready to compromise on to embellish Bulti’s Story.
So, after going through a lot of rejections for years, we decided to the film on our own, with our bare minimum resource of one camera and our in-house edit set up.
As the project was now an independent one, the 1st challenge of the film was its huge cast list. Due to lack of budget, it was quite a task to get such a huge number of good actors on board as there are almost 80 characters in the film. But somehow, the script managed to impress a lot of good actors coming from television, film & theatre background and almost all of them were ready to work for free.
The 2nd big challenge was the location. Again, low or no budget filmmaking has no luxury of putting up set and the script demanded a very real & organic look. So managing all of it on real locations was a very difficult task. tHowever, despite these challenges the team managed to shoot the film with almost no budget and it took over 1 & half year to complete the shoot.
After completing the shoot and the first cut, the film got stuck in post production beacause all the funds were exhausted and there was no money left to do dubbing, vfx, colour correction, and sound mix master. That's when we decided to take help from all the film lovers all around the world who are willing to support independent filmmaking.
We came across successful crowdfunding campaigns by wishberry and decides to launch on for Bultir Result in the same. The film needed 8 lakhs to get completed it raised 8.57 lakhs creating history as it will became the first ever Independent Bengali film which has been crowdfunded by such a big amount.
The film is now running in festivals globally and we look forward to release it soon.