Joy Sundar Sen is a popular award-winning film director. He meets Isabella, a young European actress, in Berlin and decides that Ritwik Ghatak's Paraspathar will be his next film...
Joy Sundar Sen is a popular award-winning film director. He meets Isabella, a young European actress, in Berlin. They chance upon an anthology of short stories by filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, one of which —
Paraspathar
(The Philosopher’s Stone) — begins to resonate in Sen’s mind. He decides that
Paraspathar
will be his next film.
He casts Chinu Nandy, a middle-aged junior artiste who has survived in an unforgiving industry, in the lead role. Chinu’s humble stance on life slowly begins to rub off on those around him, withsurprising results. At the last minute the producer of
Paraspathar
decides to pull the disappearing act. What happens next is what