Ekhane Ekhon
On the eve of their Class 12 board exams, two 18-year-olds run away from their suburban homes into early-2000s Kolkata, determined to steal one day of freedom, while their panicked families search the city and are forced to confront the difference between protecting their children and controlling them.
Format
Coming-of-age feature · 100 minutes
Genre
Coming-of-Age / Romance / Family Drama
Language
Bengali with natural Hindi / English
Ownership
Amalgam Original
Rights
Synopsis
Funny, raw, romantic, and painfully real: two teenagers steal one day of freedom while two families learn the difference between protection and control.
Papai and Tumpa, both 18, run away on the eve of their Class 12 board exams with little money, no plan, and the conviction that love is enough. For a few hours, early-2000s Kolkata feels like freedom—local trains, cheap food, pirated music, anonymous streets, and a cyber café. But as night deepens, romance collides with hunger, jealousy, fear, and the weight of adulthood. Meanwhile, their families search for them together and confront how love, ambition, class insecurity, and social anxiety have hardened into control.
Strategic Value
An intimate, visceral Bengali youth feature with a period-specific early-2000s world, 4:3 MiniDV-inspired visual language, bloomed practical lights, grain, rain, and an alt-pop, alt-rock, and shoegaze soundtrack.
Creator
Created / led by Sanjay Ghosh
Filmmaker, screenwriter, DraftZero founder, and Amalgam Studio founder.
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