Music Teacher [Opening Night]
Despite his ambitions to make it big, Beni is still stuck in the hills, bitter and hurt, struggling to make his ends meet by teaching music and singing in clubs. Jyotsna, his estranged student, who had left the hills 8 years back, has now become a celebrity singer in Bollywood. When the town comes alive with the news of Jyotsna coming back for a day to sing in a big music concert, Beni has to come to terms with the pains of his past as well as the delusions of his present, in order to deal with her presence in the hills, and in his life.
Director
Sarthak Dasgupta is an engineer, MBA and a singer turned filmmaker. Besides his debut feature, “The Great Indian Butterfly”, which he wrote and directed, he has written and directed a number of shows for the Indian Television industry. The screenplay of ‘The Music Teacher’ won him the prestigious Mahindra-Sundance Global Filmmaker Award in 2013.