Calcutta Taxi (2012)
20m
Running Time
March 23, 2012Release Date
Plot.
A young Art College student Aditya Chaterji finds his backpack and belongings stolen on the day of a political strike called by the infamous political party of Calcutta. Meanwhile Bakul Bihari faces the opportunity of a lifetime to win big for his glorious though covetous efforts to help a poor boy in distress. Cab driver Rasul Ahmed discovers a bomb in his backseat at a congested traffic signal in an extremely unpredictable and sensitive slum area of Calcutta. Set in the grimy backdrop of a city going through a political crisis, Calcutta Taxi unravels the story of three lives that coincide and affect each other. Each one having lost and found some things in this chance encounter of life.
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Cast & Crew.

Geeta Bisht
Rasul's Wife

Anand Rajaram
Rasul Ahmad

Vipin Sharma
Bakul Bihari

Sunnie James
Actor

Badmarsh and Shree
Music

Vikram Dasgupta
Editor / Director / Writer

David Ransley
Editor

Aeschylus Poulos
Producer

Jeff Maher
Director of Photography

Andrew Kines
Editor
Details.
Wiki.
Calcutta Taxi is a 2012 short film written, co-produced and directed by Vikram Dasgupta in his directorial debut along with Producer Aeschylus Poulos. Calcutta Taxi premiered at Rhode Island International Film Festival, where it won the Directorial Discovery Award and went on to win the Oscars Qualifier Award at the Aspen ShortFest, placing it in contention for the Academy Awards in 2014. A story that unfolds in the midst of a citywide strike, a college student’s frantic quest to retrieve his stolen backpack leads to a chaotic misunderstanding that intertwines the fates of three strangers in Calcutta.