![]() ![]() ![]() There are two spaces in the depiction of Kolkata: the city that contains the contemporary socio-political reality which is neither utopic or dystopic, and its dystopic underbelly that embodies the absence of hope for redemption or respite for its inhabitants. The film, based in Kolkata, revolves around Pramit, an aspiring documentary film-maker, and his quest for love. The inherent contradiction between the implausible fictional construct of utopian and dystopian spaces and the existing socio-political reality is finely foregrounded through multiple loci of narrative actions. This article investigates the role of utopian and dystopian spaces in the construction of social realism in 'Bakita Byaktigato'/The Rest is Personal (Pradipta Bhattacharya, 2013). ![]()
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