AUTOGRAPH is a 2010 Bengali Film starring Prosenjit, Indraneel Sengupta, Nandana Sen in lead roles directed by Srijit Mukherjee. A must watch film that would touch your heart and soul.
Cast and Crew:
* Banner: Shree Venkatesh Films in Association with Cinergy
* Written and Directed by: Srijit Mukherjee
* D.O.P. Soumik Haldar
* Music: Debojyoti Misra
* Lyrics: Anupam Roy, Srijato and Srijit Mukherjee
* Editing: Bodhaditya Banerjee
* Cast: Rudraprasad Sengupta, Biswajeet Chakraborty, Prosenjit, Indraneel Sengupta, Nandana Sen, Pijush Ganguly, Dwijen Banerjee, Dhruv Mookerji, Sohini Pal and others
* Date of release: October 14, 2010
* Rating: 7/10
Autograph is not about the world of films. It is not about the struggles, the pains and the vainness of the reigning superstar of Bengali cinema Arun Chatterjee (Prosenjit). It is about the pressures that bear down upon the people involved in the entire process of filmmaking. It is about how relationships within the narrow confines of film-making created out of professional and creative necessity mutate in ways so radical that the subjects involved are not even aware till it is too late. It is about how the media can create a character that does not exist simply by weaving a spidery and colorful web of attractive lies around a superstar celebrity, passing judgement on him and painting him in colors closer to black which could be both untrue and unfair. Arun Chatterjee, the man behind the make-up and the costume and away from the movie camera, is not really the Arun Chatterjee the superstar the media has created. The pressures that bear on the star – the uncertainty of the box office success of three successive films, or, the arrogance that comes of the knowledge that his name in the credits makes all the difference between a hit and a flop, are interwoven into the inner journey of Arun Chatterjee who discovers unknown facets of himself as work on Aajker Nayak, that of a superstar in a new director’s first film begins.
Autograph is a celluloid statement on a superstar’s emotional isolation and professional anxiety. It is also a comment on the fickle pretensions of the so-called, uncompromising filmmaker Shuvobrata Mitra (Indraneel Sengupta) and the innocence of Srinandita (Nandana Sen), a theatre actress who remains completely ignorant about the manipulations the new director, her live-in boyfriend is capable of just to plug his film before its release. It offers insightful bytes into filmmaking/film-acting as choreographed on film, through carefully choreographed mise-en-scene, through imaginatively lit production design where the entire backdrop, plus the music and the sound motifs form a part of the cast and, through metaphorical music, matter-of-fact, no-nonsense dialogue with elaborately designed pauses and eloquent silences.
