Biswanath Rath’s short-film The Right Glass is going places. It has been screened at 12 international film festivals and won the 'Best Fiction' award at the Srishti Short Film Festival-2015 and 'Children Choice Award' in Kallola Short Film Festival-2015. It has also been selected for Parachute Light Zero Act III International Film Festival, Paris-2016, where it was screened along with 60 other International films on April 15 and 16. The film deals with the theme of child rights.
“I am excited as The Right Glass, running for one minute and 58 seconds, is the only film from India to have found a place in the list of official selections for the Paris festival,” says this resident of Okkiyam-Thoraipakkam. Biswanath came to Chennai in 2010 to work as a mechanical engineer with Maruti. But his real interest lay in script writing and directing. He joined a professional course on screenplay writing and was making personal films while being employed. Now, six years down the line, this youngster from Odisha has come a long way.
He has left his job and is now into making short films, advertisements and documentaries, fulltime. His films are created under the banner of BNR Films LLP. “My first film was Kar Bhalaa, a bilingual short film written and directed by me. In Tamil, it was titled Nanmai Sei . This also won two awards,” he adds.
Biswanath is also working on a documentary series on the KBK districts of Odisha, which is a tribal belt. “The project is being undertaken along with an NGO Govindalaya. The documentary will feature stories of successful people from these under-developed areas. We want to inspire people. I am also from this district,” he adds. The launch is likely to be in June.
