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Marriage Delivered: Loneliness Solved by State?
18 Dec
Summary
- Film imagines a city where loneliness is a civic problem.
- Government offers marriage as a state-delivered solution.
- Intimacy becomes a bureaucratic exercise in the film.
Bengali independent film 'Duyare Bibaho' continues its festival journey, set to participate in the Kerala Film Market from December 13 to 16. The film, directed by Amitabha Chaterji, is a darkly comic satire depicting a city where loneliness is a civic problem, met with a government scheme delivering marriage to doorsteps.
Agents in the film operate within neighborhoods, persuading or manipulating lonely citizens into marriage, thereby transforming intimacy into a bureaucratic process. What begins as absurd humor gradually reveals a disturbing reality where companionship is no longer a personal choice but a state-mandated arrangement.
Directed by Amitabha Chaterji, known for his socially incisive cinema, 'Duyare Bibaho' features performances by Deshaa Nandii and Amrita Mukhopadhyay. The film raises urgent questions about the extent of governance intrusion into private lives under the guise of welfare, reflecting on loneliness, control, and systemic control of human connection.
