''Jhilli'' () is a

Bengali language Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. ...

film written and directed by Ishaan Ghose in 2021 and produced by

Goutam Ghose Goutam Ghose (also spelled Gautam Ghosh; born 24 July 1950) is an Indian film director, actor, music director and cinematographer who works primarily in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. He is the only Indian to have received the "Vittorio ...

Associates. The film is about a boy named Bokul who resolves to make changes in his life after realizing that most of his friends are leaving him behind in the debris of discards.

Plot

Bokul, a fourth-generation manual laborer, toils in the largest trash yard in

Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...

at a facility that crushes bones. He makes the most of his existence in his environment while being unaware of his difficulties. He has no idea that the outside world is transforming quickly and preparing for a new economic boom. His entire world was exchanged for a recreation area.

Cast

* Bitan Biswas as Ganesh * Shombhunath De as Shombhu * Sayandeep Guha as Guddu * Aranya Gupta as Bokul * Sourav Nayak as Chompa

Production

The film was shot with a Sony a7sii camera and one lens – a Canon 16-35mm – on a hand-held stabilizer. With the lack of sound equipment, the sound was recreated completely in post-production with Aneesh Basu, which took a year during the pandemic. This was a self-funded production which had no shooting script and was heavily improvised.

Awards

Reception

* There is hardship and suffering, but there is also a sense of belonging that is unmatched elsewhere. Nothing about ''Jhilli'' is fictitious. The existence of those among us who have been stripped off their identities and denied access to necessities of life. In this film, the protagonists are denied the opportunity to discover who they are. Instead, all they want is to live. *

Ghose Ghose () is a native Bengali surname that is found among the Bengali Hindu community of India and Bangladesh. Historically, Ghoses were part of the Kulin Kayasthas of Soukalin gotra, along with Boses, Mitras, and Bangaja (Eastern Bengal) Guhas. ...

's film reveals a delirious and slurred story of a group of pals that drift in and out of each other's lives as they try to earn a livelihood from Dhapa or come up with wacky escape plans that are doomed to failure in this dystopian terrain.

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* {{IMDb title, id=tt20118774 2021 films Films shot in West Bengal Bengali-language Indian films Indian drama films 2020s Indian films 2020s Bengali-language films Bengali-language drama films