'I'VE ALWAYS LOOKED BEYOND MY CLASS & MILIEU'

THE parallel cinema movement, which offered a different cinema experience to the Indian audience, does not currently have many flagbearers.

- AKASH CHATTERJEE

The movement, mainly inspired by Italian neo-realist cinema, had working-class lives shot with a sympathetic eye as its subject.. Indian director Goutam Ghose, whose cinematic journey started in the '70s with this genre, has made realistic films as well. Some of the most well-known ones are Antarjali Jatra (1987), Padma Nadir Majhi (1993), Gudia (1997), Moner Manush (2010), and Paar (1984). His film Parikrama is slated to hit the theatres soon. Excerpts from conversation the the director: with Congratulations on your upcoming film Parikrama.

What made you choose a subject like this?

The film revolves around the connection between an Italian documentary maker Alexander (Marco Leonardi) who sets out on a journey to India to make a film on pilgrims and Lala (Aaryan Badkul), a small hawker boy who shares a heart-wrenching tale of how his village gets submerged into the river Narmada because of a reservoir project. Chitrangada Singh plays Rupa, an activist who helps Alexander in his journey.