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The Cloud & The Man (Manikbabur Megh)

Synopsis:

The Cloud & The Man is an unusual story of a guy called Manik who lives in the crumbling city of Kolkata.
Loner by nature and asocial by choice, he lives with his ailing father who is nothing more than an alarm clock to him.
Manik leads an ‘uneventful’ life which revolves around his plants, the strays he feeds, the spider, the ants and the house lizard.
Manik’s father passes away one day and Manik finds himself in a quandary.
He is served a month’s notice to vacate the rented house he lives in.
Just when the world around him starts falling apart, Manik meets someone that would change his life and the course of our story for good.
He meets a cloud. Initially mistaking the cloud as a stalker, Manik soon discovers his folly.
What soon unfolds is the most unique love story the world has ever seen.
The story of a cloud and a man. The surreal romance brings out a new Manik in him and propels him into a roller coaster journey of faith, betrayal, belief & warmth.

 

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Director

Abhinandan Banerjee: An admirer of anything surreal, fantastic and paranormal, Abhinandan Banerjee had shown all the hallmark of greatness when he dropped out of college to pursue filmmaking.
At the age of 19 he co-wrote the critically acclaimed Bengali feature Teenkahon and went on to win the Best Screenplay award at the Bridge Film Festival at Kosovo.
Over the last 7 years Abhinandan has literally done everything when it comes to visual and literary art – he ran an advertising agency, wrote & directed advertising films, designed brand identities of leading brands, wrote screenplays, designed posters for films, wrote stories for Radio Mirchi, episodes for web series and ended up heading La La Lamb, the content lab of Little Lamb Films in Mumbai.
The Cloud & The Man in his debut feature.

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