Yours Truly
India 2018 | DRAMA | 84 MIN. | HINDI with English Subtitles
4/27/2019 | 3:45 - 5:45 pm
This feature will be preceded by short films - THE LAYOVER and THE LAST LETTER
SYNOPSIS
Amidst the daily din of the local trains in Calcutta, a lonely working woman in her late fifties finds herself falling in love with the voice of the railway announcer. Yours Truly is a story about seeking connection and discovering how love can strike at any age- and in the most unexpected places.
As 57 year old government employee Mithi Kumar finds herself on the brink of retirement from her mundane office job, she realizes there’s just one thing she’ll miss about work- or rather her daily commute. It’s the voice of a stranger that she has been irresistibly drawn to; one she has felt a deep connection with amidst the everyday din of the railway station. That voice belongs to the station announcer- her invisible but constant companion as she goes to work every day. Ever since the first time she heard his voice, she felt something stir in her- and over the last decade it began to feel as if he was speaking directly to her, as she began conjuring up her own images of him- even writing letters to him, sharing her deepest emotions with this stranger. As her days at work come to a close, Mithi searches anxiously for her imagined soulmate. Will she ever find him- and more importantly, is he for real? Yours Truly is a story about seeking connection and discovering how love can strike at any age- and in the most unexpected places.
DIRECTOR'S PROFILE
SANJOY NAG
Sanjoy Nag, born and raised in Kolkata, started out with documentaries before branching out to feature films. His debut feature Memories in March, was world premiered at the New Currents Section, Busan International Film Festival 2010 & won the Indian National Award in 2010 apart from featuring in the Indian Panorama, IFFI, Goa ‘2011; MAMI, Mumbai; Kerala IFF, Durban IFF, South Africa and numerous others across the globe.
Parapaar, starring Rituparna Sengupta, Paoli Dam and based on a Moti Nandy novel was his sophomore feature, released in 2014.
He has just completed his first Hindi feature Yours Truly starring Soni Razdan, Pankaj Tripathi, Aahana Kumra & Mahesh Bhatt. Yours Truly will have its World Premiere in the Windows on Asian Cinema section at the Busan International Film Festival 2018 before travelling to other Festivals and a release later in the year.
Sanjoy is currently busy with the postproduction of his recent feature film Good Morning Sunshine starring Revathy, Shweta Tripathi, Rituparna Sengupta, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Shabana Azmi. Presently involved with the scripting of his feature film concept Starring Ranbir & Hrithik which was selected for the Asian Projects Market, Busan International Film Festival, 2016. A web series is also on the anvil. An obsessive foodie and traveller, he dons the grease paint for exciting roles in films which have had their share of critical acclaim and commercial success.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Yours Truly is a poignant parable of unconventional love between two emotions, who constantly create new templates to remain connected in a world fashioned to obeying clichés and stereotypes as defined by society.
How Mithi, no longer considered a suitable candidate to cultivate and express amorous feelings, shares her life with the idea of love – a potent which excites her.
At times light-hearted and funny, it counter analyses the love story and family paradigm from the perspective of the non-confirmative marginalized yearning souls, in the process inspiring countless others.
CREDITS
CAST
Soni Razdan
Pankaj Tripathi
Aahana Kumra
Mahesh Bhatt
Vinay Pathak
Written & Directed by Sanjoy Nag
Produced by Shiladitya Bora; Nikhil Chaudhary; Milapsinh Jadeja
Executive Producer Aniruddha Dasgupta
Director of Cinematography Stanley Mudda
Editor Sankha
Sound Design Sukan Majumdar
Music Debojyoti Mishra
BGM Madhubanti Bagchi
Lyrics Amitabh Varma
Film Mix Anindit Roy
Costume Designer Shilpi Agarwal
Colorist Sidharth Mirchandan
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