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POET IN TWO WORLDS

SYNOPSIS:
Rajendra Shekate - Raja - is an unemployed rural young with M.A. B.Ed. who fells to secure a job. His passion for writing poetry adds to the fury of his father who expects Raja to at least work in their own soya bean farm. Raja's mother is always entangled in the fights between father and son, while Raja is muddled between his love for poetry and inevitable farming.
The village, its traditional order of living, people, their varying emotions and their struggle for existence are the sources of inspiration for Raja's words. Raja witnesses them all empathetically. He pens it differently. Once, Raja gets an invitation for a lit-fest in City and a whole new world is unleashed to him. A world where he would only dream to be. It is a platform where Raja expects his poetry to be appreciated. But at this very hour, village is going through few unexpected incidences which make the whole surroundings hostile, especially to the farmers. Such unpredictable background has always pulled Raja back from stepping ahead. This time Raja prefers to chase his dreams abandoning his rural and agrarian burdens. But this choice ensnarls him into a bitter reality of both these worlds.

  • SWAPNIL VASANT LATA KAPURE
    Director
  • SCREENPLAY WRITER- SWAPNIL VASANT LATA KAPURE (SCREENPLAY)
    Writer
  • STORY WRITER- BALAJI SUTAR
    Writer
  • SWAPNIL VASANT LATA KAPURE
    Producer
  • GOPAL TIWARI
    Producer
  • SANJAY THAKUR
    Producer
  • UMAKANT JAGTAP
    Producer
  • SANJAY THAKUR
    Key Cast
    "RAJA "
  • VARSHA JOSHI
    Key Cast
    "AKKA- RAJA'S MOTHER"
  • PRADEEP BHOKARE
    Key Cast
    "ANNA- RAJA'S FATHER"
  • DHANANJAY DESHPANDE
    Key Cast
    "NANA "
  • MAHENDRA WALUNJ
    Key Cast
    "NARAYAN- RAJA'S FRIEND"
  • HARSHA A.G.
    Key Cast
    "SONALI- NANA'S DAUGHTER"
  • SUHAS SIRSATH
    Key Cast
    "MUKUND- RAJA'S POET FRIEND"
  • BALAJI SUTAR
    Key Cast
    "SENIOR POET"
  • RUTUJA GADRE
    Key Cast
    "YOUNGE POETESS"
  • HARSH GUPTA
    CINEMATOGRAPHY
  • NILESH MEENA RASAL
    EDITOR
  • HIMANSHI PATWAL
    PRODUCTION DESIGN & ART DIRECTION
  • UMAKANT JAGTAP
    SOUND DESIGNER
  • VINOD K. RAM
    BACKGROUND MUSIC DIRECTOR
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    दोन जगातला कवी (DON JAGATALA KAVI)
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    29 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 16, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    7,856 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Marathi
  • Shooting Format:
    DIGITAL FULL HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:35
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - SWAPNIL VASANT LATA KAPURE

Swapnil Vasant Lata Kapure, a National Film Awardee, is an alumnus of Film & Television Institute Of India, Pune. After completing B.Sc. Chemistry from North Maharashtra University Jalgaon, Swapnil went on to pursue the know hows of video production at Department of Communication Studies in University of Pune.

Later, he worked as Associate director, Co-writer & Director for the various Marathi feature films, Documentaries & Ad films with eminent directors in industry.

At FTII, he went on to make distinguished films as a student. His documentary on labour's spot titled as "Thiyya" has received prestigious CILECT's Asia Pacific Award of 2018. CILECT is the international association of 180 film and television schools from 65 countries.

His final diploma film "Bhar Dupari" (The Afternoon) was awarded by National Film Award for non feature category in 65th National Film Awards of India in 2018. The same film was selected in Indian Panorama Section of 49th IFFI at Goa in 2018.

Both these films have been screened at multiple festivals across India and abroad and received multiple awards.

Swapnil is interested in telling the stories which are closer to human life. He likes to experiment on every aspect of film making and try to explore the emotional graph and complexities of the characters in different situations while telling an engaging story on screen.

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Director Statement

DIRECTORS NOTE:

Indian villages have been the most affected entity of the process of globalization. The life in villages and small towns have witnessed a vast change in the last 25-30 years. The value systems, agrarian economics, corrupt education systems, brutal fights and politics are accompanied by uneven climate cycles causing droughts and floods. On this backdrop, it is remarkably noticed that though villages get hold of semi-urban branded prosperity in one hand, on the other hand they experience the loss of good old harmonious village life.

As the newer and unknown types of stresses arise in rural life due to penetration of various media and gadgets, solutions to problems are being replaced by suicidal or violent thoughts. In the midst of patriarchal social order, women continue to be the lone sufferer as well as founding stone in the family structures. Though a few human instincts in villages tend towards togetherness, the overall process of globalization and awareness about the new world order has left villages annoying and cunning like never before. The change is inspiring enough for me to make a film.

Don Jagatla Kavi (Poet In Two Worlds) is an attempt to adapt Balaji Sutar's short story catching similar notions. I too hail from a village. I have tried to make the surroundings alive through visuals and sounds.

Don Jagatla Kavi (Poet In Two Worlds) is dilemma of unemployed literature graduate rural poet Raja who is entangled in his struggle to leave behind his vicious and chaotic rural agrarian background and establish his identity in urban literary circles.