Kalikshetra

About the film

The city of Kalikata/ Kolkata (Calcutta) was born with Goddess Kali coded in its name. Between its rise and decline, lies the fundamental shift of the polity from pre-colonial, through the colonial and up to post-colonial age. Sharing a personalised and subjective historical consciousness, exploring creative ways to connect different times with the present, weaving in many told and untold facts, anecdotes and relics, spread over two millennia, of a city whose history is known only from the colonial age. Kalikshetra is a cartographic mapping of the labyrinth of forgotten local history of the area where the second capital of the British Empire was once chance-erected, and stands weathered today. It is like a cinematic interpretation of Luis Borges's incredibly short story 'On Exactitude in Science' around the city of Kolkata.