Kaalpurush
Kaalpurush or Kalpurush English name Memories in the Mist is a 2005 Indian Bengali drama film directed and written by Buddhadev Dasgupta. The film stars Mithun Chakraborty and Rahul Bose in lead roles.
The film tells the story in a nonlinear fashion, with two timelines being depicted simultaneously. Rahul Bose has a dysfunctional marriage with Sameera Reddy who has an extramarital affair.. Rahul tries to reconnect with his longlost father played by Mithun Chakraborty, while Sameera dreams of breaking free of her stifling domestic life. Rahul is considered as a failure both in professional and personal lives. However, an honest and simple man, he clings to simple joys of life and memories of his childhood. The backandforth movement of the story between two timelines the present day and Rahuls childhood and the arrangement of the sequences make Mithun a mystery manhe could be dead, alive, or, just a figment of Rahuls imagination.The film begins as Mithun follows Rahul as the later returns home from a days work. Rahul is shown to be a doting father, but a failed husband. Mithun then starts to tell his own story. He had a happy family with wife Laboni Sarkar and the adolescent son Sumanata. A past flame of Mithun, played by Sudipta Chakraborty, incidentally arrives in the village as a part of a masked dance troup and meets Mithun. At one unrestrained moment, she tries to seduce Mithun. Mithun tries to resist. However, Mithuns wife, Laboni, sees a glimpse of them in a compromising situation. Laboni, pained by the betrayal, decides to leave Mithun, with their son in tow. While a devastated Mithun becomes a footloose traveller, their son bears the scar for the rest of his life. Back to the present, father and son come face to face to heal old wounds. ........
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