Kolkata filmmaker may turn lucky with 'Unlucky Shirt' at UK film-fest – The Statesman

With the onset of a covid pandemic lockdown that left the global population trapped in their homes, many turned to creativity to seek the freedom that would rekindle hopes in such dark and solitary times. A Kolkata based filmmaker, Suranjan Dey reposed his faith in ‘Unlucky Shirt’ that may finally turn his luck around if his short film wins him an award in the UK film festival ‘Lift-Off Global Network Session 2021’. The film is scheduled for screening in the festival that is being presently held through ‘Vimeo on Demand’ online. The final round of the festival will have live screenings at Pinewood Studios in the UK and then at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. The director feels his short film reflects the global plight caused by the pandemic that limited interactions among people to virtual rooms through interactive software where a screen always divides two individuals even when they feel the need to embrace one another. ‘Unlucky Shirt’ is about two such individuals who are united by love, separated by the lockdown. Dey says the film centres on a telephonic conversation where both characters discuss and argue on almost all topics under the sky – love, poetry, poverty, disease or…
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