Capital I

Capital I is a 2015 Odia language independent feature film written and directed by Amartya Bhattacharyya. This film, tagged as an existential psychodrama, is the first independent feature film of Odisha. The film is produced by Susant Misra and Swastik Choudhury. This film is shot on a shoe-string budget without any film industry involvement. This film marks the feature film debut of Amartya Bhattacharyya as a writer, director, cinematographer and editor. All actors in this film are non-professional actors, and all of them make their feature film debut in ‘Capital I'. Kisaloy Roy makes his debut as a music director, and so does Amrita Chowdhury as a Choreographer. Capital I was premiered at Festival du Film d'Asie du Sud Transgressif (South Asian Alternative Film Festival) at Paris in February 2015. Thereafter, the film was screened at various film festivals including 20th International Film Festival of Kerala in December 2015. Capital I is distributed worldwide through the Italian sales and distribution company The Open Reel. Capital I is the first Indian film to be acquired by The Open Reel. In India, the film has been theatrically released through the Mumbai-based distribution house, 1018mb. The film's initial release dates are 23 October 2016 for Bhubaneswar, 6 November 2016 for Kolkata and 4 December 2016 for Mumbai. 'Living and ceasing to live are two imaginary solutions; existence is elsewhere' – Andre Breton's non-deterministic approach towards existentialism in The first Surreal Manifesto is brought out through a fiction, which has been categorized into a new genre – Existential Psychodrama !