''Shunyo E Buke'' (English: Empty canvas) is a 2005 Bengali

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Kaushik Ganguly Kaushik Ganguly (born 4 August 1968) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. Multiple National Film Awards winner Actor-Director, Kaushik Ganguly is known for making films that explore vario ...

. The film deals with the psyche of men and women and their physical relationship. After making '' Waarish'' Ganguly made this second feature film and it did well in Kolkata and was appreciated in few film festivals.

Plot

Saumitra, a brilliant painter and sculptor, visits

Khajuraho Group of Monuments The Khajuraho Group of Monuments are a group of Hindu and Jain temples in Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh, India. They are about 46 km (28.6mi) from Chhatarpur, Chhatarpur city, the district headquarter, 283 km (177mi) from Gwalior, southea ...

to draw inspiration and meets Teesta there through a common friend, Anjit, who is an artist too. Love blossoms between them in Kolkata, and though their family and economic standards are poles apart, they decide to marry. Teesta breaks away from her rich, blue-blood family. On the wedding night, Saumitra, to his shock, discovers that Teesta is flat-chested. The shock develops into a sense of being cheated, anger and finally, hatred. Teesta confides in and seeks advice from Sharmistha di, her boss. When Saumitra arrives, he is turned away. Saumitra draws a diagram one day and shows the shortcomings of Teesta's body to Joydeep, who in turn tells Sujoy and Sujoy to Anjit. Teesta hears about this from Anjit. She asks Saumitro not to make a mockery of her any more and asks for a divorce. A few years later, Saumitro comes across Anjit, Teesta and their daughter. Anijit and Teesta remained in touch and later got married. Teesta tells Saumitro that her husband is quite happy with her despite her physical shortcomings, and they have a happy married life. Saumitra regrets the offences he committed and feels guilty and ashamed.

Cast

* Churni Ganguly as Teesta Mitra * Kaushik Sen as Saumitra *

Kharaj Mukherjee Kharaj Mukherjee or Kharaj Mukhopadhyay is an Indian actor, comedian and singer. He won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Male Playback Award in 2004 for the film '' Patalghar''. Over the years, he has established himself as on ...

as Joydeep * Tota Roy Choudhury as Arijit * Biswajit Chakraborty * Rajesh Sharma *Sudip Mitra ;Guest appearance * Roopa Ganguly as Sharmisthadi * Soma Dey *

Deepankar De Dipankar Dey is an Indian actor in the Bengali film industry. He has worked in movies as a hero, villain and character artist. He starred in Ray's ''Seemabaddha'' (''Company Limited, 1971''), '' Jana Aranya'' (''The Middleman'', 1976), '' G ...

Crew

*Direction, story, screenplay:

*Chief assistant directors: Abhijit Chowdhury, Amitava Chakraborty *Assistant directors: Tarun Chakraborty, Joydeep Mukherjee *Production: Forthright media and entertainment *Executive producer: Shaswati Guha Thakurta *Art direction: Samir Kundu *Make up: Sekhar Banerjee *Camera: Adinath Das *Editing: Subrata Roy *Background music: Chiradeep Dasgupta *Music direction: Goutam Banerjee *Sound recording: Nanda Kishore Ghosh *Re-recording: Nataraj Manna *Playback singer: Kharaj Mukherjee *Stills: Samir Sikdar, Shibhnath Karmakar *Costume planning: Churni Ganguly *Calligraphy: Goutam Barat

References

External links

* {{Kaushik Ganguly 2005 films Bengali-language Indian films Films directed by Kaushik Ganguly 2000s Bengali-language films Indian drama films