''Pendulum'' ( bn, পেন্ডুলাম) is a 2014

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thriller based on surrealism time travel written and directed by

Soukarya Ghosal Soukarya Ghosal ( bn, সৌকর্য ঘোষাল; born 7 June 1986) is an Indian filmmaker, director, screenwriter, illustrator and music composer. He is widely considered for his work in Rainbow Jelly, a food fantasy film for the childr ...

and starring

Radhika Apte Radhika Apte (born 7 September 1985) is an Indian actress. She works predominantly in Hindi films, and has appeared in a few Tamil language, Tamil, Marathi language, Marathi, Telugu language, Telugu, Bengali language, Bengali, and English-langua ...

, Rajesh Sharma,

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Rajatava Dutta Rajatava Dutta (Bengali: রজতাভ দত্ত; born 11 August 1967) is an Indian actor who appears in Bengali, Hindi and English films. He is often regarded as one of the most celebrated and respected Bengali actors of his generation. O ...

Subhasish Mukherjee Subhasish Mukherjee ( bn, শুভাশীষ মুখার্জি) is an Indian Bengali actor. He is a well-known actor in Bengali cinema. He generally appears in comedy and in supporting roles. Some of his well-known films where he acted ...

Shantilal Mukherjee Shantilal Mukherjee is an Indian actor associated with Bengali-language theatre and films. Biography Mukherjee was born in Kolkata. He lost his father in an early age. He was admitted in Sarsuna High School from where he passed Madhyamik e ...

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. The film is based on a surrealistic painter who can provide time travel experience to his audience and can physically take them into his virtual world of painting. Through his painting, he travels time and tries to settle the disputes of several lives in Kolkata, affecting different individuals in a chain system.

Plot

A car accident caused by Nandita (

), a young girl from the advertisement world is the sole truth moment of this hyperlink cinema, where five different stories are intertwined. The accident is shown thrice in the film, from three different povs of time. First, it is shown in the real-time frame, second, it is shown in the flashback of Anirudhha (Anindya Banerjee), one of the characters of the film, and for the third time, it is shown in the virtual space of a Painter’s (

) work. The Painter lives in a dilapidated house in north Kolkata as one of the tenants. He practices a strange kind of art in his own closed room. After every painting is done, he takes out his secret bottle of colour from an iron safe. The colour is black and never ever spills out from the bottle even if it drops on the floor uncorked. The secret colour is actually made with the same element that creates black whole out there in space. The painter draws a labyrinth with that colour on the painting which actually creates a warm hole that acts as a shortcut to the virtual world of his canvas. A non-Bengali builder ( Rajesh Sharma) buys the house and plans for demolishing it to make a shopping mall.

Cast

Soundtrack

The Music of the film is composed by debutant music director Mainak Nag Chowdhury. The sound design is done by Sukanta Majumder. Out of five original songs,

Chandril Bhattacharya Chandril Bhattacharya ( bn, চন্দ্রিল ভট্টাচার্য) is a popular Bengali essayist, lyricist, poet, orator and director from Kolkata. Music Bhattacharya is one of the main lyricists of the Bengali band Chandrabin ...

and

Anindya Chatterjee Anindya Chatterjee is an Indian bengali film director, music director, singer, lyricist, actor and producer based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the singer-lyricist of prominent Bengali band Chandrabindoo. In recent times he has composed ...

who won National Film Award for best lyrics have penned two. Ghosal has written the other three songs. The soundtrack was released by Cozum Analytics. The full music album was released in 2014.

Reception

The film was released on 7 March 2014 in India and received positive critical reviews."The use of music in Pendulum is very intelligent, it creeps up on your senses. The music has come together very seamlessly, never intruding in the mood of the scenes," says Filmmaker

Srijit Mukherji Srijit Mukherji is an excellent national award winning Indian film director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. His regular collaboration with veteran actor Prosenjit Chatterjee brought him into the ...

in an interview to

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. The film bagged three awards in the 4th

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Awards

References

External links

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Music awards Bangla 2014
2014 films Bengali-language Indian films 2010s Bengali-language films Indian thriller films Films set in West Bengal 2014 drama films Films set in Kolkata