“Joyguru,” a fictionalized account of the life of Indian mystic artist and music icon Parvathy Baul, will launch sales at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.

Parvathy Baul is a leading exponent of the syncretic Baul minstrel music tradition that is hugely popular and culturally influential across eastern India and Bangladesh.

Written and directed by actor-turned-filmmaker Soumyajit Majumdar (“#Homecoming”), the film will follow folk music icon Radhika Das Baul and popular Bollywood film music director Ritwik during their unlikely collaboration for a pioneering music album of Baul songs transcreated in Hindi, where they form a unique bond, a few days before her sudden and mysterious disappearance from her ashram near Shantiniketan, India.

Currently in scripting stage, the Hindi-language feature film will commence principal photography in 2025, with Asian Film Awards nominee Ravi Varman (“Ponniyin Selvan”) as DoP. The film will be shot across Shantiniketan, Kolkata, Vrindavan and Kerala in India and in parts of the U.

Upcoming college drama musical, ‘#Homecoming’ starring Sayani Gupta, Tushar Pandey, Hussain Dalal, Soham Majumdar, Platiba Borthakur and Tuhina Das has a song dedicated to Kolkata as the team’s special ode to their favourite city. The song, named ‘Jugnu Hote Hain’ is being voiced by Rashmeet Kaur and lyricist-singer and composer Sameer Rahat, son of legendary […]...

Popular singer Arijit Singh’s sister Amrita Singh, who made her Bollywood debut as a singer last year with the Netflix film ‘Pagglait’, has lent her vocal prowess for a Bengali song for the recently released youth drama ‘#Homecoming’. ‘Bengalu Toppa’ is a semi-classical form of Bengali song originating from the folk songs of camel riders […]...