Watch Bela Movie 2022 Official Trailer, Release Date, Cast Name

Genre: Documentary

Language: Bengali

Director:  Prantik Narayan Basu

Producer: Prantik Narayan Basu, Anjali Monteiro, K.P. Jayasankar

Release date: 9 April 2022

Where to Watch : Nearby Theaters

Bela Movie 2022 Official Trailer

 

A slice of life and routine in Bella, a small East Indian village has been brought through the lens of filmmaker Prantik Basu in this documentary. It takes the viewers through the everyday routine of Chhau dancers preparing for an upcoming festival.

It focuses on how the time which is also the meaning of the title in their local language passes as the factory workers loom in the background, and artists churn in colourful dance rituals.“What we see in the final film, is nothing of it is staged in the production; all the activities, rehearsals, and the preparations were shot as they happened over the course of time,” says Basu.

“It is during the editing that the structure of a couple of days came up and that in a way fictionalises the entire construct of time in the film. I tried to remain true to the sense of time that I experienced during my stay in Bela, which was idyllic and conflicted at the same time,” he further adds.