Asur

Asur

Kigan Mandi is a profoundly passionate artist who easily forgets his surroundings whilst immersed in his own vivid thoughts. An eccentric, Kigan's behaviour frequently results in being suspended from his job as a professor of art at Visva-Bharati University. When his photo shoot featuring a female student causes a scandal, the university fires him. Newly unburdened by the dryly dispassionate orderliness of university rules and regulations, the Kigan is delighted by finally having the freedom to exert full creative control as he pursues his artistic passions. Kigan begins experiencing visualisations of Goddess Devi Durga in the form of a young girl who always accompanies him in his works. As an expression of his bhakti, Kigan plans his grandest project yet: he wants to create the world's largest Durga murti. Enlisting the help of the well-connected Aditi - his friend ever since they met as young classmates during their own undergraduate arts studies - Kigan overcomes numerous hurdles and eventually succeeds when Aditi's influential father gets the project approved. Kigan's monumental murti of Goddess Durga is installed to much fanfare and the consecration ceremony proves highly popular with the public. With the pujas continually attracting increasingly large crowds of devotees, there is also no shortage of corporate sponsors eager for publicity.

Director

Pavel Bhattacharjee

Release

24 Jan 2020

Run time

139 min

Language

Bengali