<p>'Aarohan', starring celebrated actor Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Ray and Rituparna Sengupta, has been slotted in the 'Focus on World Cinema' section for screening, the film's director Pinaki Choudhury told PTI.<br /><br />"I was asked by the festival directorate to send even the rough cut when I told them a month back that some post-editing job still remained to be done. And after seeing the rushes they intimated me about selection of the film," the director said.<br /><br />The 'Focus on World Cinema' section showcases representative films from America, Europe, Asia and Africa.<br /><br />Centred around Benaras, river Ganga and the famous ghats, 'Aarohan' tells the story of the journey of a man at the fag end of his life who arrived in the holy city with wife Mrinalini (Sandhya Roy) to stay at 'Moksha Bhavan', a place where dying people are given shelter for one month.<br /><br />"If they do not die, they have to leave," Choudhury said adding he got the idea of Moksha Bhavan (salvation home) from a newspaper article on 'Mukti Bhavan' in the holy city where an old person is similarly not allowed to live beyond one month.<br /><br />"After reading the fascinating article in the paper, I myself visited the spot and was intrigued by the views and philosophy of the inmates. That is how the story was born."<br />Choudhury said 'Aarohan' was the continuation of a cinematic journey on old age which he had variously dealt with in 'Ballygunje Court' and 'Cancer' in the past where vignettes of life and death came across through different ways.<br /><br />The Montreal film festival will also screen an Indo-France co-production, 'India by Song' by Vijay Singh in the Documentary section.</p>
<p>'Aarohan', starring celebrated actor Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Ray and Rituparna Sengupta, has been slotted in the 'Focus on World Cinema' section for screening, the film's director Pinaki Choudhury told PTI.<br /><br />"I was asked by the festival directorate to send even the rough cut when I told them a month back that some post-editing job still remained to be done. And after seeing the rushes they intimated me about selection of the film," the director said.<br /><br />The 'Focus on World Cinema' section showcases representative films from America, Europe, Asia and Africa.<br /><br />Centred around Benaras, river Ganga and the famous ghats, 'Aarohan' tells the story of the journey of a man at the fag end of his life who arrived in the holy city with wife Mrinalini (Sandhya Roy) to stay at 'Moksha Bhavan', a place where dying people are given shelter for one month.<br /><br />"If they do not die, they have to leave," Choudhury said adding he got the idea of Moksha Bhavan (salvation home) from a newspaper article on 'Mukti Bhavan' in the holy city where an old person is similarly not allowed to live beyond one month.<br /><br />"After reading the fascinating article in the paper, I myself visited the spot and was intrigued by the views and philosophy of the inmates. That is how the story was born."<br />Choudhury said 'Aarohan' was the continuation of a cinematic journey on old age which he had variously dealt with in 'Ballygunje Court' and 'Cancer' in the past where vignettes of life and death came across through different ways.<br /><br />The Montreal film festival will also screen an Indo-France co-production, 'India by Song' by Vijay Singh in the Documentary section.</p>