Manikbabur Megh

Drama Bengali

Manik is a lonely middle-aged man who lives with his father, but with whom he has no contact. Instead, his life consists of taking care of his plants and ants, plus a spider and a lizard. But then a change happens in the man’s dull life – he notices a cloud in the sky that seems to follow him all the time. Life takes on a new, previously unknown value for him. Is it friendship or perhaps love?

Cast:	Chandan Sen, Debesh Roy Chowdhury, Arun Guha Tharkurta, Bratya Basu, Nimai Ghosh, Taranga Sarkar
Director:	Abhinandan Banerjee
Writer:	Abhinandan Banerjee
Editor:	Abhro Banerjee
Camera:	Anup Singh

Guild Reviews

Image of scene from the film Manikbabur Megh

Abhinandan Banerjee and Chandan Sen present a magical love song through their cinema

FCG Member Reviewer Shamayita Chakraborty

Shamayita Chakraborty | Deutsche Welle

Fri, July 12 2024

Chandan Sen’s Manikbabur Megh is clearly a disruption in the current space of the Bengali cinema. It is nothing that one wants to watch and yet it is everything that we cherish on the screen.

Manikbabu (Chandan Sen) lives a lonely life. He is first chased and then romanced by a whiff of cloud that only he can see. What do we see when we look at the sky? Manikbabu sees a whiff of cloud that refuses to leave him. He decides to embrace that celestial piece of cloud in his life. This lonely man and his quirky environment – his noisy ceiling fan, his rooftop greenhouse, the hanging lizard in the bathroom, the pile of files on his office table, and so on – tell a lot of hitherto bottled-up stories. The film is a collage of those chronicles.