SYNOPSICS
Swapner Din (2004) is a Bengali movie. Buddhadev Dasgupta has directed this movie. Prasenjit Chatterjee,Rimi Sen,Rajesh Sharma,Raima Sen are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2004. Swapner Din (2004) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
The film follows Paresh, a government projectionist who travels through remote areas of rural India with his driver Chapal. The two men show educational films to disinterested villagers, while Paresh idolizes the image of a beautiful woman who appears in a surviving fragment of film. On the road, they encounter the pregnant Amina, who is attempting to reach an unspecified border to start a new life with her child. The trio forges an unlikely traveling alliance, just as they are also met with a series of setbacks: their 16mm projector is stolen, and Amina does not possess the documents which will allow her safe passage.
Swapner Din (2004) Reviews
very personal cinema...
I read a criticism of an eminent film critic about Buddhadeb Dasgupta becoming 'very personal' in his later films which lack the social commitment and depth he showed in his early films (Dooratwa, Grihajuddha, Bagh Bahadur and others). SWAPNER DIN would fall in the second phase of his films and no different from the personal kind of films (LAL DARJA & others) he has been making in recent times ... I was trying to dissect SWAPNER DIN and its inner message. The film is basically about a Govt. employee (Prasenjit) and his driver friend (Rajesh Sharma) who tours the villages to promote Govt. schemes (like educating the rural folks about the use of condoms). In carrying out the mission, the Projector and even the Govt. Car gets stolen. A number of characters make brief appearances to fuse themselves into the abstract storyline of the director... While trying to unravel the hidden message, I think that BD is telling us that in spite of the fact that all dreams are crumbling (the uneasy relationship the protagonist Prasenjit has with his father and his mother living with another man, the quibbling land-lady where Prasenjit lived as a tenant for seven years, thieves robbers terrorists and exploiters abound everywhere...) we must never stop dreaming ...this is validated in the concluding sequence of the film wherein the beautiful village belle (Raima Sen) leads our protagonist towards dreamland... The supporting cast includes Reema Sen, Haradhan Bannerjee and others ... Rating: 2.8 out of 5