The Nowhere Son

Plot

Production

• While filming in Kashi, director San Banarje was detained by the local police for pointing the camera at a Hindu temple without permit. He was released after two hours.
• This is the third film that San Banarje and Trisha Ray shot with Soumitra Chatterjee.
• After filming his last feature Bodhisattva in seven days, director San Banarje used a different approach to film "The Nowhere Son," taking almost a year and half to shoot the film, in two different continents.
• Almost every crew including the assistant sound recordist, assistant production manager, unit production manager, and production assistants acted in speaking parts.
• In most of his solo scenes of Director and Cinematographer San Banarje, the camera was often operated by tourists in New Orleans, rickshawpullers in Kolkata, boatmen in Kashi, porters in Howrah and sometimes it was kept on a stand while he performed in front of it.
• San Banarje shot a chase scene with himself and two other actors, by operating the camera with his left hand, while the scene was playing out on the right side of the frame.
• Soumitra Chatterjee had to leave town for a few days when San Banarje approached him for doing this film. When San told him that he would not shoot the film without Chatterjee, the legendary actor cancelled his trip to play the part of San's father.
• Trisha Ray edited the film while on chemo to keep her mind distracted from her treatment.
• The film was ready in September 2012 but just before burning the DVD, the hard drive crashed. San Banarje and Trisha Ray drove to Austin to try to get the data out but were told the drive was beyond repair. The rushes had to be digitized and film was recut from scratch, finally finishing in February 2013.
• During the second edit, director San Banarje introduced new characters and fleshed out the story to add layers to the characters.

  Cast

• Soumitra Chatterjee
• San Banarje
• Biswajit Chakraborty
• Trisha Ray
• Samba Banerjee
• Sankar Roy Chowdhury
• Dibyaroop Roy
• Ramasankar Paul
• Suman Nandy
• Sukanto Bhattacharya
• Shahab Peer
• Thiago Paes

  Crew

• Producers : San Banarje and Trisha Ray
• Writer : San Banarje
• Director : San Banarje
• Cinematographer : San Banarje
• Editor : Trisha Ray
• Sound : Gautam Nag
• Music : Gianmarco Leone
• Production Manager : Sambhu Munshi

  Screenings