Naya Pata

Naya Pata is an independent film to be produced through crowd funding. It is the directing debut film of Pawan K Shrivastava. Naya Pata is a cinema which tries to capture the emotional insight of a person during migration. It is the first independent film from Bihar which is being produced through crowd funding. The idea of making a film on identity loss due to migration was a childhood dream of the director. Shrivastava has introduced the concept of crowd funding in Bihar to convey his message through the film independently. Vaartul films and Nayaab Vision Entertainment Private limited has produced Naya Pata and it was released by PVR Directors Cut onJune. According to Shrivastava, Naya Pata is based on the issue of migration and its pain since last three decades in Bihar. Its a story of the identity lost and found. Its based on the backdrop of the closure of sugar industry in Bihar during 19851990. It also talks about the modern and contemporary Bihar.

The genre of the film is a journey which describes the reestablishment of the lost identity by travelling from one place to another. The story is conveyed through cyclic screenplay where it starts from a point and after revolving around various circumstances it again comes to an end with the same point. This circular story will conclude a message to the viewers.Naya Pata is a film about the struggle of a man to reestablish his lost identity and loneliness. Instead of emphasizing on migration, the film mainly talks about the intangible things that happen to a person when he migrates from one place to other, such as loneliness, loss of Identity and sense of belongingness. It talks about the intangible consequences of the migration. Wewho? have tried to tell the emotions of a migrated person, through his silence and behavior. Film opens in 19851990, a period when the sugar industry in Bihar was facing a lockout due to some clashes between labor and trade unions. Many of the sugar factories were locked out and Ram Swarath Dubey, the protagonist of the film who used to work in the mill became jobless. Now he is left with no other option rather than migrating to a new place, i.e., New Delhi. Finally he comes to Delhi leaving behind her newly married wife. He gets a job in law firm and started working. As he started living in the city the feeling of loneliness was wandering around him. Delhi is a new world to him and in the course of time he finds himself torn between two worlds. Whenever he visits his native place, even there he feels no peace because nothing remains permanent for him. The moment when he is at home, he gets worried about the day he has to leave and when he returns to Delhi, he is again lost in the memories of home. Lost between these two worlds, he spentyears of his life in Delhi. He is now feeling that he should return to his village, as his only son become young and married. He was thinking to take care of remaining members of the family as he

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