The sixth film of Bengali film director
Anjan Das is a slowly moving arthouse film which features good actors
and beautiful music. It is a literary adaption from the novel The Flautist
by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay and that instrument obviously has been one of the
inspirations for the very lyrical, melodical songs here. Anjan Das already died in 2014 after
directing eight feature films - for Banshiwala he was awarded two prices at international film festivals.
The film basically asks the moral question if a house as a building is merely a property (of investment) or if it's somehow a sacred place of remembrance. In this case, the house even is a little bit run-down but still an impressive ancestral manor which bears memories of multiple generations of the family. So, selling it would be the equal to giving away the familial heritage. But there's a dark and hidden secret, too, which has to be challenged as the story comes to a close. In some abstract scenes, the fil…
The film basically asks the moral question if a house as a building is merely a property (of investment) or if it's somehow a sacred place of remembrance. In this case, the house even is a little bit run-down but still an impressive ancestral manor which bears memories of multiple generations of the family. So, selling it would be the equal to giving away the familial heritage. But there's a dark and hidden secret, too, which has to be challenged as the story comes to a close. In some abstract scenes, the fil…