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ANJAN DASAnjan Das began as an assistant director toBibhuti Roy, a noted short-film maker butsoon graduated to directing his debut featureSainik in 1975. the film was screened at theBerlin Mannheim and Teheran Film Festivals.Post his second feature film in Nepali language,Arko Janma(1984), Anjan returned to cinemaafter a gap of nearly 20 years, with SanjhbatirRoopkahara(Strokes and Silhouettes). After the success of thisfilm, Anjan has directed Iti Srikanto and Faltu, two highlyacclaimed feature films. This is his sixth feature film.JAATINGAA ITYAADI( Jaatingaa et al .… )35mm/Assamese/Color/124 minutes/ESTDIRECTOR’S STATEMENTIt was a challenge, to transform a verse novel into cinema-andthat actually goaded me into making this film-an experimentwith cinematic form. It was an experience I highly enjoyed intransforming poet Joy’s psyche into visual imagery. The mosaicI conceived in the narrative is structurally different but thoroughand lucid.SYNOPSISManab and Reeta hail from two neighboring villages. Theyhave just completed university education. Attached from thechildhood, they are trying to chart out a life of their own butan idealist Manab, frustrated with the 'system' returns to hisvillage while Reeta carries on with efforts to set up a business.At about the same time recently married, Jack and Pauline cometo Assam, a North Eastern state in India.Pauline's grand father Clemence had once upon a time set upa tea garden in Assam. Clemence never returned to England anddied here. Pauline was curious to discover her grand father'sfascination to stay back in this distant place. She convinces Jackto make their honeymoon trip to Assam and discover the charmof the place but on their way to Clemence's tea garden, they arekidnapped by an extremist outfit. The extremists, finding it22 23