CAPITAL I (2014)
85 min | Odia | Director: Amartya Bhattacharyya | Producer: Susant Misra, Swastik Choudhury
'Capital I' is an existential psychodrama revolving around a mysterious and unknown artist and depicting the transformation of mind of a young girl whereby she finds herself trapped in between realistic relationship and attractions and a strange relationship with her hallucinatory lesbian partner. The film breaks away from realistic continuity and ventures into the surreal sphere. Scenes move randomly, just like a wandering mind having it's root in reality. The film ends with an abstract culmination. Existence meanders through reality and imagination and ventures into a time-independent eternity. Moments tear apart and the debris of thoughts are periodically washed out, through the menstrual cycle of our minds. And the mind gets ready, yet again, for a new conception.
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Capital I is a cross between concrete nothings and abstract somethings... Through its runtime, Capital I boldly takes you to territories uncharted (at least in the context of Indian cinema) and doesn’t mollycoddle or hold your hand as you tread the path.... If you are wondering why Indian cinema does not consistently produce content to match the best in the world, it is probably because a marvellous piece of original artwork like this is on YouTube, without the recognition it is worthy of. While Tarantino, Wes Anderson and Tarkovsky inspired derivative pieces are being helmed as cinematic excellence.
Sandeep Padhi
Capital I is stellar a case of a talented writer/filmmaker with a clarity of vision and an ability to communicate that vision to his cast and crew in such a way that the talent involved far transcends the film’s meagre budget. The film is visually appealing, narratively involving and thought-provoking, and nicely constructed by cast and crew.
Richard Propes
Capital I is one of those films where every sentence spoken has meaning. I think this may be my first Indian film (Bollywood has never quite appealed) but if this is what's coming out of India right now, I am SO there."
Misty Lane
The film takes a circuitous path... It seems to say ...our lives and the concept of time are an illusion. Question are what that makes this film interesting....it does not say: here are the answers; it says keep experiencing and keep questioning. I also enjoyed the focus on female energy as life, creation, birth and renewal extended to everything in our world and beyond... I could see hints of Bunuel's filmmaking, where discomfort in watching a scene does not detract from its intriguing quality. The gift of Capital I is the space it leaves for the audience to think for themselves. Relax and go for the ride.
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10 years from now, this film would be remade and probably then the original would be looked upon. There hasn’t been a cinematic piece in a long time which was driven solely by individualistic expression.
FILMMAKER'S CORNER
It was an enjoyable film. During certain moments while viewing the film I was thrown to seventies when I had seen films by Mani Kaul and Kumar Sahani. They were more non-verbal and on account of that less explicit. But this film communicates better..... Capital I makes the viewer reflect philosophically and that is an uncommon feature in films these days. Amartya has taken forward his penchant for diagrams, diffusion of colors, uninhabited landscapes, blurred images and long shots from this film..... I firmly believe these kind of innovative exercises take cinema narrative from point A to point B and not films which `succeed` in treading the cliched narrative.
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