Private Project

Swayambara

It's a more than 15 years research documentary and still going on...Ethnic Santal Tribal Community and their Society and Social Structure have portrayed here. The Rights to Choices for lady in Society and women respect with fundamental equality, establishment, view and sense of innate life.

  • Amitava Halder
    Director
  • Amitava Halder
    Writer
  • Dibya Kollorob
    Writer
  • Amitava Halder
    Producer
  • Dibya Kollorob
    Producer
  • Live Cast
    Key Cast
  • Dibya Kollorob
    Screenplay Editing Sound Design
  • Miru Marandi
    Narration
  • Surendra Tudu
    Narration
  • Paul Hasnda
    Narration
  • Sune Hansda
    Narration
  • Joyita Tudu
    Narration
  • Binod Hansda
    Narration
  • Rani Hansda
    Narration
  • Bnidit
    Narration
  • Nanda Baski
    Narration
  • Amitava Halder
    Camera
  • Dibya Kollorob
    Camera
  • Lokenath Mandal
    Camera
  • Bhuban Mondal
    Camera
  • Jayanta Halder
    Camera
  • Agnibha Halder
    Camera
  • Bappaditya Bandyopadhyay
    Camera
  • Amitava Halder
    Research & Story
  • Dibya Kollorob
    Script & Titling
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    29 minutes 56 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 10, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    425 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Bengali
  • Shooting Format:
    SonyHDR,A7ii,Panasonic DV,Mobile
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Amitava Halder

DoB: 06/03/1962
Started Acting in play Since 1977.
Attend Many Drama and Film Workshops in Nandan And Academy for Direction and Script.
Work in Chitra Bani Studio for Film Editing.
Written the script for Short films Flaming Soul and Space Aroma, which are shown in 7th KSFF in 2010.
Own produced short film with Direction Bhalo Manush Based on Rabindranath Tagore Short Story, placed in 8th KSFF 2011.
Act in Philippines Radio Varitas with Play script, such as 'Seko Doito' based on the theme of Arsenic Effect and many more.
From 2006 working as a journalist in Private and Government Channels, make episodes in tourism for Doordarshan.
Parallelly start observing and thorough research on Folk Culture Tradition, collecting Datas of Folk Drama Thesis.
Take part in many Film and Featured Serials acting, Such As 2004 Shyam Bengal Direct Film 'Bose:The Forgotten Hero', shooted in Sadhinpur Birhum West Bengal.
Write and Direct More than 35 Plays and Drama, Specially the flying Drama in running Ganadevota Express Train Compartment,Perfomed on Plastic Hazards with minor cast, titled: 'Plastic er Astakur'
Work as a Sub Editor in Chitra Jagat Magazine.
Award winning Film Maker of Antyaja Kaal, a Documentary on The time travel of Folk Drama in 2022.
Award winning Film Maker of Bhalo Manus, a short film based on Dr. Rabindranath Tagore Short Story in 2022

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Director Statement

People on Earth are now used to rootless floating societies.
They have, hardly confidence about organized society, social bonding and social relationships. Everyone is like an isolated island.
And strangely, the exact opposite picture, we find in India's primitive tribe of Santal society.
They are still socially and culturally bound.
It is like an oasis built in the desert of a lifeless modern society.
The reflection of this simple social system of Santals is found in their marriage customs.
Where women's respect, rights and primacy of their spontaneous desires manifest in primitive equality.
In the real sense they are independent in their social system.
Swayambara
We are just trying to present this oldest and unique modern practice of the world in the form of a screenplay, in front of a lonely and isolated sociable world.