शनिवार, 16 जुलाई 2016

Criminal psychologist-filmmaker Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar brings together monks-sex workers for common film screening

IT WAS a meeting of two different worlds, Literally. When monks and sex workers came together under one roof at Nandan 3 Cinema, Kolkata to watch a film. The person behind this unusual journey is criminal psychologist-filmmaker Dr. Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar and social entrepreneur Rita Jhawar, who made their maiden film based on Buddhist principles and saw it winning numerous awards worldwide.  
Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar’s Hindi feature film Umformung – The Transformation is winner of Best Story – Indian Cine Film Festival, Best Background Score – Noida International Film Festival, Best Director and Best Background Music –10th Free Spirit Festival, Merit for Newcomer Director – World Film Award, and Merit for International Film – World Film Award, Jakarta, Best Background Score – 5th Dadasaheb Phalke Film Festival,   Official Selection – 4th Washington DC South Asian Film Festival, Maverik Movie Awards, Khajuraho International Film Festival, Miami Independent Film Festival among others. 
The story of intense dimensions, two parallel stories juxtaposed in one world Umformung – The Transformation is about a Buddhist monk in search of the ultimate truth on one hand, and a ruthless entrepreneur who knows that power is the ultimate truth on the other. 
Languid and unbiased, the film unfolds as Karma unfolds. The journey of the monk from the idyllic monastery set in the mountains to prostitutes at a city brothel and his movement into the path of self-actualisation, alongside the transformation of the builder when life comes half way to meet her on her path of self-destruction,  forms the crux of Umformung – The Transformation.  
“Umformung – The Transformation isn’t just a film for me. It is a marriage of poetry, philosophy of life and a painting of moving images,” confesses Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar, adding that the diverseness of the audiences of  the screening was a simple way to illustrate the open arms of Gautam Buddha and his tenets. 

“Guided by Senior Rimpoche from McLeodgunj, Himachal Pradesh from His Holiness Dalai Lama’s temple, the film looks at Buddhism as a way of life and how detachment is the ultimate truth. A prostitute in that sense is no different from any of us in the so called respectable society, and by her straightforwardness and honest approach to life, is actually an inspiration to a monk to find Nirvana!” Nothing else could explain that better than this screening.

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