For thy honour, Julius !!
The treatment of this film is a little different from the contemporary style.
1. Characters or scenes have not been explicitly established upfront. In fact, establishments have often been situational and subtle.
2. The time frames have been sequenced non-linearly, and the events have been scattered as a random orientation of reconcilable instances.
3. There is a surreal and abstract perspective that runs parallel with the skeletal storyline.
4. There are minimum camera movements,with no use of trolley or cranes in the film. The momentum of the film is heavily dependent on the underlying momentary spirits, rather than the dynamicity of camera.
The film tries to capture various aspects of human nature and their vulnerability towards unanticipated circumstances.There is also a very subtle analogy of the film with Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the analogy is not character based, but situational. The Ides of March marks the day of utmost significance where Caesar was assassinated in the senate house. It marked the death of ambition (according to Brutus), break of trust (as Caesar considered Brutus to be one of his very close friends), and a shower of melancholy and grief (from Antony’s perspective).
Producers : Tanumoy Talukder, Jins George
Story, Screenplay and Direction : Amartya Bhattacharyya
Director of Photography : Mainak Ghosh
Editing : Amartya Bhattacharyya, Mainak Ghosh
Cast :
Amartya Bhattacharyya, Rishi Verma, Ria Dasgupta, Prateek Payodhi, Subhomoy Mukherjee,
Swastik Choudhury, Sameer Arora, Sayantan Paul, Rahul Ranjan, Biswa Ranjan Ray
Voice Over :
Initial title narration(Brutus) : Amartya Bhattacharyya
Initial title narration(Cassius) : Sayantan Paul
End Credits narration(Antony): Amartya Bhattacharyya
Hospital Receptionist : Sanchari Roy
Mr. Malhotra’s Voice : Swastik Choudhury
Line Production : Biswa Ranjan Ray
Ambience and Art Settings : Mainak Ghosh, Amartya Bhattacharyya
Location and Lights : Mainak Ghosh, Amartya Bhattacharyya, Prateek Payodhi
Executive Management : Swastik Choudhury, Amartya Bhattacharyya, Rahul Ranjan, Bikramjit Roy, Subhomoy Mukherjee
Finance Management : Tanumoy Talukder
Make-up and Costumes : Amartya Bhattacharyya, Prateek Payodhi
Casting Director : Amartya Bhattacharyya
Audio Recordist : Mainak Ghosh
Musical Tracks by Kevin MacLeod :
(Licensed under Creative Commons ~Attribution 3.0~)
Violin : Sayantan Paul
Guitars : Rahul Shukla
Poem and Recitation (for thy honour, Julius) : Amartya Bhattacharyya
Color Correction : Mainak Ghosh
Cinematographic Assistance : Prateek Payodhi, Amartya Bhattacharyya
Directorial Assistance : Mainak Ghosh, Prateek Payodhi, Bikramjit Roy