Shuva and Me
Date: 14 January 2026
Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: KCC, 4th Floor, Hall 1 & 2
Shuva and Me, directed by Goutam Ghose, is a contemplative cinematic journey with eminent painter Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya, unfolding as a search for images and memories that a city reveals through its layered socio-political realities. Moving through streets, histories, and lived experiences, the film reflects on how a city shapes artistic consciousness over time.
At the heart of the film are Shuvaprasanna’s exchanges with Günter Grass—the celebrated poet, author, painter, and Nobel Laureate. Their conversations, along with the painting they create together, form the emotional and intellectual core of the narrative. As brush and paint, camera and lens travel in unison, the film searches for an unfinished canvas of time, culminating in Grass inscribing the words “Shuva and me” on the shared artwork.
Blending cinema, painting, and memory, Shuva and Me emerges as a meditation on art as process—fluid, reflective, and perpetually evolving
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Born in Calcutta in 1950, Goutam Ghose is an acclaimed Indian filmmaker, cinematographer, and photographer. He began his career in documentary filmmaking in 1973 and has since created a body of work that includes landmark feature films such as Maa Bhoomi, Paar, Antarjali Yatra, Padma Nadir Majhi, Dekha, Moner Manush, and Raahgir, along with significant documentaries on figures like Ustad Bismillah Khan, Satyajit Ray, and the Dalai Lama.
A recipient of 16 National Film Awards, Ghose has also earned major international honours including awards at Cannes, Venice, Nantes, Tashkent, and IFFI, and is the only Indian to receive the prestigious Vittorio De Sica Award in Italy. He has served as the cinematographer for all his films and remains an avid photographer.
