The capitalist mindsets and the economies of scale had ensured the growth of many booming cities like Mumbai. We see the skyscrapers, we never see those humans and the hands that made them. We never ask the people how they are and how they made the city what it is today. Human rights' discussion falls short to highlight such surface-level ignorant attitudes. for them, a 'Dialog' is nothing but an interior monologue that finds its outlets through the countless beats of their tools grinding against each other.

'Dialog' brings the story of the migrant workers working in the city of Mumbai, a land of dreams. It is unfortunate that the residents of a country are called 'migrants' in the land of his father and his own self.

This film tells a poignant tale of our struggles, as we learn to win it every day in this beautiful dream called Mumbai. Dialog is pure music at its best, the heckles, rants, and spats of the street vendors form its lyrics. The instruments and beats are composed out of close recording samples of the various tools that these workers use. 
Their perseverance beats the uncertainties that their lives entail. Their relentless zeal never lets the city sleep. In the end, these voices are drowned in the multitudes of hopes with which a wave of newer folk arrives in the city. 
The fluidity of the music percolates through the visuals of the musical film. Like the existential ebbs and tides of our crisis, the visuals never settle and keeps on surprising you until it haunts like a 'lore!


Dialog - a video art film by Souvik Chakraborty

Dialog draws inspiration from the famous words of Plato: "Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul". It tells a poignant tale of our struggles, as we learn to win it every day in this beautiful dream called Mumbai. Dialog is pure music at its best, the heckles, rants, and spats of the street vendors form its lyrics. The instruments and beats are composed out of close recording samples of the various tools that these workers use. 
Their perseverance beats the uncertainties that their lives entail. Their relentless zeal never lets the city sleep. In the end, these voices are drowned in the multitudes of hopes with which a wave of newer folk arrives in the city. 
The fluidity of the music percolates through the visuals of the musical film. Like the existential ebbs and tides of our crisis, the visuals never settle and keeps on surprising you until it haunts like a 'lore!
Dialog has been awarded at various film festivals around the world. It had been a Finalist in the Best Music Video category in the My Rode Reel festival and also at the FlickFair festival. Dialog has been selected in the Short of the Year, Summer edition, and Moinho Cine Fest. It has also been an official selection at the prestigious River to River Florence India Film festival, Florence; Hollywood Venus Awards, US; First-time Film-maker Sessions, Deptford Cinemas, London, Maremetraggio, Italy, 
Cortoons Festival Gandia, Karnataka Youth International Water Film Festival, The BeBop Channel Content Festival and Filmeraa international film festival to name a few.  Dialog had also won the Special Jury award at the Anandalok Shotcuts Film Festival.


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