Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s ‘Labour Of Love’ makes a sweeping start

In its 11 year, the Venice Days section is meant as an effort to promote and nurture young filmmakers. Set in 2009, Sengupta’s film looks at a young married couple in Kolkata facing the brunt of recession across the country and how they manage to keep their relationship going.

Based on a story by Italian author Italo Calvino called The Adventure of a Married Couple, the 84-minute film stars actors from Bengali cinema, Ritwick Chakraborty and Basabdutta Chatterjee. Thirty-year-old Sengupta has done the screenplay and also produced the film. “For this venture I pooled in whatever money I had saved from my years in advertising commercials,” Sengupta, who worked as a promo director with a music channel, told us in an earlier interview.

The film has been made under his own production banner, For Films, with his wife and executive producer Jonaki Bhattacharya. It will now be screened at A Window on Asian Cinema section at Busan International Film Festival and the BFI London Film festival in the First Feature Competition section in October this year.