Shunyo E Buke

Shunyo E Buke (Empty canvas) is a 2005 Bengali film directed by Kaushik Ganguly.^[1] The film deals with the psyche of men and women and their physical relationship. After making Waarish Ganguly made this second feature film and this film did well in Kolkata and was appreciated in few film festivals.^[2]

Plot

Saumitra (Kaushik Sen), a brilliant artist (Painter and sculptor), visits Khajuraho to draw inspiration and meets Churni (Churni Ganguly) there through a common friend (Tota) who is an artiste too. Love blossoms between them in Kolkata and though their family and economic standards are poles apart, they decide to marry. Churni breaks away from her rich, blue blood family. On the marriage night Kaushik, to his shock, discovers that Churni is flat-chested. The shock develops into sense of being cheated, anger and finally hatred. Teesta goes and seeks solution from Sharmisthadi (Rupa Ganguly) her boss. When Soumitro turns up there he is turned away. Soumitra draws a diagram one day and shows the shortcoming of Teesta's body to Joydeep (Kharaj Mukherjee) who in turns tells it to Sujoy, Sujoy to Anjit. Teesta comes to know about this from Anjit. She asks Soumitro not to make a mockery of her any more and asks for a divorce. A few years later Soumitro again comes across Anjit and Teesta with their daughter at the back. Anijit and Teesta stayed in touch and found solace in each other and got married. Teesta tells Soumitro that her husband is quite happy with her as well as her daughter in spite of her physical shortcoming and they have a very happy married life. Soumitra regrets the offences that he had committed a few years back and he questions himself with a heart full of guilt and shame.

Cast and crew

Cast

• Churni Ganguly
• Kaushik Sen
• Kharaj Mukherjee
• Tota Roychoudhury
• Biswajit Chakraborty
• Rajesh Sharma
• Sudip Mitra

Guest appearance

• Roopa Ganguly
• Soma Dey
• Deepankar De

Crew

• Direction, story, screenplay: Kaushik Ganguly
• Chief assistant directors: Abhijit Chowdhury, Amitava Chakraborty
• Assistant directors: Tarun Chakraborty, Joydeep Mukherjee
• Production: Forthright media and entertainment
• Executive producer: Shaswati Guha Thakurta
• Art direction: Samir Kundu
• Make up: Sekhar Banerjee
• Camera: Adinath Das
• Editing: Subrata Roy
• Background music: Chiradeep Dasgupta
• Music direction: Goutam Banerjee
• Sound recording: Nanda Kishore Ghosh
• Re-recording: Nataraj Manna
• Playback singer: Kharaj Mukherjee
• Stills: Samir Sikdar, Shibhnath Karmakar
• Costume planning: Churni Ganguly
• Calligraphy: Goutam Barat

References

External links

• Shunyo E Buke at the Internet Movie Database