The Maya of Bunnu K. Endo
An anonymous multinational company interested in capitalising natural resources, deceitfully leads a powerful politician's wife and her chauffeur on to an empty flat in a big city promising them the security of a better life but holds them captive. The motive is to drive them to death, make it look like elopement case gone sour and use it as a tool to sabotage an agitation against a proposed power plant that is to be built by the company. The couple are surveilled upon by a faceless representative of the company who not only controls the supplies that go into the flat, but also mysteriously the space and time inside. As the couple are coerced and blackmailed into going through a series of role-playing, the lines between the past, present and future mystically get blurred. Also blurred are their very existence.
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Ramchandra PNDirectorSuddha (The Cleansing Rites), Putaani Party (The Kid Gang), Haal-e-Kangaal (The Bankrupts)
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Ramchandra PNWriterSuddha (The Cleansing Rites), Putaani Party (The Kid Gang), Haal-e-Kangaal (The Bankrupts)
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Sushma PNProducer
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Ramchandra PNProducer
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Vinnay VishwaaKey Cast"Man"
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Chitrra JaitleyKey Cast"Woman"
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Solanki ChakrabortyCinematography
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Sudipto MukhopadhyaySync Sound Recording
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Santosh KumarSound Design & Sound Editing
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Ramchandra PNSound Design & Sound Editing
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Ramchandra PNEditing
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Pradip SahaAssociate Director
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Suresh GujarExecutive Producer
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Project Title (Original Language):Bunnu K. Endo Maye
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Project Type:Feature
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Runtime:1 hour 39 minutes
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Completion Date:March 1, 2019
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Country of Origin:India
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Country of Filming:India
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Language:Kannada
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
Ramchandra PN is an Indian filmmaker based in the city of Mumbai, India. He is a 1991 ‘Screenplay writing and Direction’ graduate from the ‘Film and TV Institute of India’, Asia’s premier film school situated in Poona in India. Over the years, he has been making documentaries, features, short films and TV programs. His first feature film SUDDHA (The Cleansing Rites) in Tulu language won him the Best Indian Film at the Osian Cinefan Festival of Asian Films, New Delhi Indian 2006. It also won him a Hubert Bals exhibition grant in the following year through which he showed the film in over hundred Tulu speaking villages in Coastal Karnataka South India. His second feature film PUTAANI PARTY (The Kid Gang) in Kannada language won the Best Children’s film at the Indian National Film Awards in 2009. It was also in consideration for nomination for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His third feature HAAL-E-KANGAAL (The Bankrupts) in Hindi language has just been completed and hopes to be screened in film festivals. He is also involved occasionally in film studies and academics conducting film workshops in various institutions.
There is an urgent need to make films on Corpotocracy or the nexus between the corporate world and the people in governance and its impact on environment, people's liberty, inequality etc. Capitalizing the world natural resources is the foremost grand narrative that is being played post Industrial revolution. Such large monolithic narratives has its own set of casualties - freedom and liberty. To evoke this grand thematic issue within the confines of the four walls of a flat in a city was the challenge. The attempt here is to create an allegory - to give sense of the real through the unreal, to be in one space, time and character and suggest the other. The dialectics of this form could be best suited to portray a world that we think we are in control, but actually are not.