TASHER DESH

94 MINUTES | BENGALI WITH ENGLISH SUBS | COLOR | FICTION | 2013

SYNOPSIS

An acid-punk adaptation of Tagore’s dance drama, TASHER DESH the film takes off on the fairy tale construct of the original piece. And creates a wild, graphic world where characters are stuck inside a book. Princes, oracles, fascists and lovers sing and dance, suffer and rebel in this musical. The soundtrack brings together international artists and an electronic edge to traditional popular Tagore music. Told in four acts, TASHER DESH is a visual trip.

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Tasher Desh (English: The Land of Cards) is a 2012 Bengali fantasy film directed by Q. The film has been widely described as a "trippy adaptation" of the seminal 1933 Rabindrath Tagore play by the same name. Q’s Tasher Desh is a psychedelic fantasy about destiny and humanity, social control and Utopian revolution. Tasher Desh has a glittering ensemble cast featuring Tillotama Shome, Rii, Joyraj Bhattacharjee, Tinu Verghese, Imaad Shah, Kanti De Biswas, Anubrata supported by a galaxy of youthful talent. Tasher Desh had its international premiere on at The 7th Rome International Film Festival.

The film had a theatrical release in India in August 2013.

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“The idea is to unsettle people and that`s why we are putting it out in the mainstream."

- Q.

What critics Are Saying

Adding to the contemporary relevance of the play - and, even more strongly, its new cinematic version - is the fact that the revolution among the card-people is led by the women.

— FIRSTPOST

“A vibrant and freewheeling exercise in cinematic style and challenging images”

— SCREENDAILY

“Q has retained the songs that Tagore wrote but has experimented with the music by bringing together musicians from around the globe including names like Susheela Raman, Sam Mills, Eric Truffaz, Moog Conspiracy, Tanmoy Bose, Sahana Bajpai, Arijit Chakraborty and Seth Blumberg.”

— ZEE NEWS

Q's film is interesting first of all on a stylistic level: it is an essentially Indian work (also on a musical level) that is inspired by an Indian artist, but stages an allegory that as such is universal, stylistically updated with a language which, while remaining intimately Indian, makes use of a profoundly globalized aesthetic (cinema itself, as an artistic form, is intrinsically global: and in this it represents par excellence the peculiarities of contemporary globalized culture).