Sourav Dutta

Last Update September 2, 2019

MY IDEAS/CONCEPTS

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The following is a literary work of fiction, has no connection with real incidents or persons. The following is an IP (Intellectual Property) of Sourav Dutta. Any use of the following must have prior permission from the writer before any kind of commercial or non-commercial use. For permission & purchase of concepts email at sourav.gmjns@gmail.com. For tailor made idea/concepts mail only at sourav.gmjns@gmail.com with subject as 'tailor made idea required' for quick response.

HASNO (For Film/web-series) - The story of a beautiful Muslim girl, named Hasno, living with her husband in a city like Hyderabad, or maybe Lucknow. Kamran, her husband is a short-tempered man. He is an alcoholic & holds a political position in his community as well as in the locality. One day Kamran decides to give talaq to Hasno, but while discussing this with his friend Hasno overhears her husband's decision of giving her talaq the very next day. But the all mighty has something else in reserve. Next day morning the country wakes up to the supreme court decision of banning triple talaq until next hearing. Hasno is happy but what will happen to her next?

THE TEACHER (For Film/web-series) - Aadi Srinivas is a 40 years old maths teacher in a high school is going through his bad time. He is not happy with the present education system in India. So in his class, he tries to develop different methods of teaching maths. Not only that, Srinivas teaches his students to raise a question at anything & everything they don't understand. His style of teaching is well appreciated by the young students, but it is also creating problems for the other teachers. Finally, on the annual cultural day when Srinivas is asked to deliver an opening speech, he opens up and delivers a speech against the education system of India. The world around him takes 180 degree turn and Aadi ends up in a jail. A unique story of a teacher and his fight for education.

THE SOCIAL (For Film/web-series) - Childhood friends Rohan & Kunal grew up together. One day Rohan gets a call from Kunal who offers him a job in his company which deals with computer programming. But things start changing when all of a sudden Kunal commits suicide. Investigation closes as it was a straight case of suicide. But Rohan is not ready to take his friend's death so easily. So he starts his own level of investigation and soon come across some unbelievable revelations about his friend, the company he was working in and a worldwide data smuggle activity. Now he must find a way out of this and give justice to his dead friend.

W and the Bottle (Feature Story Concept) - Wriddhiman Roy is a young boy with a strong character. But he is not happy with his name. Its big, awkward & ugly according to him. So whenever he introduces himself, he says, he is 'W', just 'w'. So all his friends and even his teachers call him by the name 'w'. Though he is smart he is also a little weak in studies. That is his only drawback. So one day after a really bad day at school and home, he decides to run away. In the night when walking along the sideway, he suddenly stumbles upon a strange bottle. He quickly picks it up and gives a close look at it. The bottle is not only strange but in fact very strange. Its a glass bottle but you can not see what's inside, it's too dark. The cap of the bottle is missing but its sealed with an orange piece of cloth, inscribed on it are some Sanskrit slokas. Without much hesitation, w takes the bottle and puts it inside his backpack. He has very little money in his pocket and the world outside is too expensive so he drops the plan of running and returns home very late at night. From the very next day, we see a very strange man starts following W. The man is seen everywhere. W notices him but when he approaches him he vanishes all of a sudden. For the next few days, the same thing repeats. Later one night when we see w is packing his school bag for the next day he suddenly gets hold of that glass bottle and he reconnects that from the day he got hold of this bottle from the very next day the strange man has started following him. Which means he himself, the bottle, and the strange man are all connected. So he decides to open the bottle. What happens next is a tale so unexpected and unbelievable series of plots.

(Mail for the full story at souravdutta@mail.com or sourav.gmjns@gmail.com)

THE CIRCUS (For Film/web-series) - When the brain of a typical frustrated middle-class working man erupts. The result is catastrophic. Desire, sex, frustration, murder, hatred, anger, lie and filth all seems to be the only byproduct of life, a roller coaster ride of a simple man into a psycho killer with a twist at the end of the story/season. Apritam Majumdar aka Apu is our protagonist cum lead. Choked under the circumstances he is living in; his psyche is about to overpower his conscious. Soon a mistake turns into a big crime, a crime into a murder, finally the end with an unthinkable twist. The series will be primarily in Hindi/Bengali, with supporting Bengali/Hindi language, but the story will take place in Kolkata, giving it a unique combination of language and culture.

MANU KI DAIRY (For Film/web-series) - An independent working girl is haunted by a spirit of a small schoolboy. A terrifying story of child abuse, with an end where human and spirit decides to co-exist for a social cause/mission.

MIXED SALAD (Short Film Concept) - Mehul & Jia, both teenagers, just had their first sexual encounter with each other. We see them together lying on a white bed, where Jia wants to confess that she is a bi-sexual girl, but Mehul, on the other hand, misinterprets everything. Jia is in a mixed state of mind whether to confess or not. But after several attempts and after several misinterpretations Jia confesses her sexual orientation to Mehul.

UDAAN (For Film/web-series) - A typical Bengali boy falls in love with a south Indian girl who hardly speaks even Hindi properly, the Bengali language is something like an alien language for the girl. But they are in love. The boy has a natural talent for singing, and his voice is mesmerising. The boy’s father was an ex-army man, now an archaeologist doesn't believe in modern technology, uses letters to communicate with his only son from time to time. But suddenly the letters are sounding mysterious. Thinking that his father can be in some sort of danger, the boy decides to go in search of his father, with his newly made girlfriend but they are totally unaware about the fact that unknowing they are becoming a part of a national level treasure hunt. A journey of teenage love with adventure-packed action is what we suppose to offer our audience.

AFTER FINAL BLOW (For Film/web-series) - The world is no more. Technology & social media has ended in a world war. Heavy social media usage has genitally muted human psychology & physiology. We are now in 2089. Babies are born with mutated gestures. In this course of time, we come across Parth, a 5th generation human, also genetically muted. But for 22 years he was at the center (a special facility meant for muted kids). Now he is returning home, to live with his father and grandmother. How will he adjust to the world?

KIDNAPPED (For Film/web-series) - On the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, a fourteen years old Muslim girl gets kidnapped. Halaq Mohammed is the kidnapper. A fanatic middle-aged Muslim man with a lot of self-taught knowledge. The kidnapping takes place a few days after the announcement of supreme court banning triple talaq. Halaq is not all happy that triple talaq is now banned, its a criminal offence now. For him, it is not an act of justice for Muslim women rather an act of enforced law by the ruling party who hate the Muslim community. Halaq is a married man but now he will secretly carryout triple talaq to disobey the government He will record the event and also carry-out a genocide. So he is on a self-made mission but his plan takes a dramatic change when his wife with the kidnapped girls start a revolt against him.

SHAM (For Film/web-series)- A docu-drama film concept, where we see a white man comes to India, and start making a documentary on himself by faking his own identity as a filmmaker and takes part in a profound film festival in India and successfully uses his fake ideas, logic and meaningless interpretations to influence the judging panel, audience & other participants to take away a recognition for the film he never made. Doing this he want to prove two things. First, how easy it is to fake yourself like a celebrity and second, how easily people believe in a fake person.

ADVENTURE TREASURE HUNT CONCEPT (For Film/web-series)- Laxmi is a young and beautiful south Indian girl. But she is not just any ordinary girl, she is the descendant of the oldest Kalari teaching family of Kerala. Everyone in her family is a master fighter. Her father was an army, now an archaeologist who is working on some distant land. No one knows the location of her father and also what exactly he is working on. The family has a rival. Initially, they were the masters of the same school, but greed has divided the family into two. Laxmi's family is basically run by her mother and grandmother. But the rivals are close-by. The rival leader is the brother of Laxmi's mother. Her uncle. A middle-aged ugly looking master of the martial art. Laxhmi is working hard on the path of becoming the next master of her family. She could easily beat 10 people empty-handed. And with a weapon. She is unbeatable. At this moment of her life, Laxhmi receives a letter from her lost father. The letter is sad and indicates that her father might be in danger. But there is no way she could help her father. She feels bad. But in few days time, a world-class corporate company contacts her for a mission. And Laxhmi without any second thought joins the company cause this was the same company her father had joined seven years back. The adventure begins as Laxhmi is given the same cabin/chamber where her father used to sit. Very soon she discovers a clue left over by her father. She starts following the location across the globe. But she is not alone. On her adventure journey whoever she meets for investigation seems to disappear or dead the next day. Later she discovers that the corporate company has not only hired her but also her uncle. And they purposely hired Laxhmi so that she can track down her father who has betrayed the company after he worked for them and suddenly disappeared one day while working on a classified case. At this point, we also come to know that the head of the corporate company is the real villain of the story who is doing all this. The reason is a national level treasure which they had discovered. But according to the company Laxmi's father had double-crossed with them. And for him, the owner of the company is on wheelchair today. Laxhmi on her journey will come across a very charming guy who sings very well. They fall in for each other. Together they will start the final stage of an adventurous journey in search of her father and the treasure.

THAT CHINESE GIRL (For Film/web-series)- In 1976 Chinese government announced a strict policy called the one-child policy. Miku Soa and his wife failed to follow the policy and his wife gave birth to their second child, a cute little baby girl, in the year 1978. Now Miku may lose his job as a punishment if the news reaches the government. With a lot of pain, they decide to secretly abandon their second child. Meanwhile, a handsome guy from Bihar, Darbhanga district named Govind M Jha, pursuing his medical education in China, comes in the same area where Miku used to live. One night while returning home Govind comes across the poor abandoned child of Miku. Govind decides to adopt her and brings her back to India. Fifteen years later the same girl returns in search of Miku and her mother. What happens next?

AD FILM CONCEPT (TOPIC - SPEED/YOUTH POWER) - A young man enters a local municipal/corporation office. Well dressed, with a file in his hand, walks confidently across the big government balcony/lobby. We could see people working all around in temporary table chair setups, people are running with urgency. His mobile phone is placed in his chest pocket, with the primary camera facing the world outside. The young man comes to a particular person, a government employee, busy in his work, no time to even raise his head. So the young man takes the chair and brings out a handwritten paper from his file, which looks like an application. Without any delay, the government employee takes a look at the letter and laughs. Then says, ''pot-hole problem, go to PWD dept, it is not our job". And then what happens next is a perfect example of speed & youth power. (A perfect ad concept for products which signify speed and/or power. If you want the entire concept mail at sourav.gmjns@gmail.com)

TIPU - Genre - Drama/animal rights (For Film/web-series) - The time is when there is no animal left on this Earth. We as proud scientists and consumers are desperately looking for DNAs of dead animals so that we can genetically reinvent them. We are ready to pay any price for that. A worldwide search operation will soon begin for the last time. On the other hand, we see a single father, living with his son in a distant land of greenery and tall trees in the mountains, unaware of the fact that the world is animal-less now. We see the child playing with a puppy (baby fox). What happens next is an eye opener for the humanity. A tale of cruelty and love. A message of truth and apathy.

Narang (For Film/web-series)- Professor Narang is the head of the neurology department of Science at Mumbai University. Hundred of students listen to his lectures at once. Sometimes even the faculty of other science departments also joins him during his lecture. But Narang has a secret talent which he purposely hides from the world. He can read the last few minutes of a dead man's mind. One day during his lecture he finds a known face sitting in the crowd and observing him carefully. Narang feels disturbed, he abruptly finishes his lecture and tries to leave the place at once. But to his surprise, the same known face stops him all of a sudden. There encounter is no coincidence, as Narang is requested to be a part of an ongoing investigation of a serial killer. A dangerous killer who is so clever that the investigating team need help beyond their normal procedure. Narang agrees to be a part of the race and slowly involves himself into the investigation. He stops his diet and becomes insomniac as every time they missed the killer just by few minutes, Narang becomes more desperate. The investigation becomes more ugly when one day Narang feels as if he is being followed. The team comes to the conclusion that the killer may target Narang as his next victim. What happens next is totally unexpected for everyone. Even for Narang.

Detective Sabyasachi (Comedy Detective Web Series) - There are people who still believe in private investigation more than police report or filing an FIR because family reputation and self-respect matters the most. For them, we have Detective Sabyasachi Chatterjee. An adamant follower of Bomkesh Bakshi looks and behaves almost like him but primarily jobless. Sabyasachi has crossed a very big milestone of his life, that is his age. He is almost 60 but he never discloses it and tries his best to pretend like he is just about to cross 50. Mr Chatterjee is tall and handsome, and just like Bomkesh he also has an assistant, but he is as young as his grandson, the name is Kunal Bose. The actual assistant of Mr Chatterjee was not Kunal, but his father Shishir Bose, an over-energetic fellow with no fear at all. Unfortunately, in an ongoing investigation Mr Shishir went in search of a clue and never came back. So now his son Kunal has joined Mr Chatterjee to help him in his investigation and meanwhile he will continue his search for his father. Kunal is a very clever and intelligent young fellow. On the other hand Mr Chatterjee, due to his age is losing memory, eyesight, strength and stamina, all that is required for a good private detective. But thanks to Kunal he smartly hides all the weakness' of Mr Chatterjee and somehow or other through mistakes, laughter and comedy the duo moves along solving the most difficult cases.

Comedy of errors will be the main source of laughter for our audience throughout the series. In this time when we are too much into youth based contents, a look back with a feel of nostalgic detective series with a laughter is very much waiting for the audience.

THE PIPE LINE (For Film/web-series)- Three homeless kids who live in a big empty pipeline of a big city start a rescue mission on their own when Geeta, one of the three, gets kidnapped by a woman trafficking gang. The story reveals a shocking insight of how women trafficking takes place in India. The pipeline is a story of friendship, ugly use of power and women trafficking.

SHAHEED (For Short/Feature Film) - A heart touching story of two friends during the 1940s Hindu Muslim riots in Punjab. The story reveals how one friend helped another to escape the situation, but fate has something very cruel for them in reserve.

Note: The short version of the story with an approx. duration of 30 minutes can be made into a feature length film if applied with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon effect, where the same narrative will be played from three different perspectives. And Shaheed is a perfect story for such experiment.

Missing Link (For Film/web-series) - A computer guy finds out that government satellites which are of no use are left in the space to hover around. He tries to connect to one of them, and after many unsuccessful attempts, he connects. One night he gets an auto-reply from the satellite. It an alien signal, and they land on his house. What next?

The Call (Found Footage Short Mockumentary) - Ashish M. Rao, a young photojournalist walks into the jungle of Sundarbans on a project to photograph a tribal community. Later on, while taking pictures, the tribal people tells him about a photographer who also visited the tribe just a few months back, but when he heard about a mysterious baba he left into the jungle and never came back. Ashish gets interested and goes inside the jungle. After looking for some time he comes across an almost broken camera. Ashish takes out the memory card from the broken camera and plays it back in his laptop. We start seeing another story. A kind of a video blogger is in search of a baba, whom he calls 'mobile baba' on the video. After several hours of searching, he comes across a tree, where we see no baba, but only some belongings of a baba. And around that, we see blood strains. The blogger tries to run but all of a sudden he hears a phone call. So he follows the sound. After a few minutes of searching the blogger gets the phone but its totally broken. It's a simple old phone, but the number pad on the phone looks absolutely new and fresh, it is only the dial and the disconnect button which looks overused, the phone is also battery-less. So out of curiosity he presses the dial button and to his surprise, he connects back in time. The phone conversation somehow ends as the man on the other side gets killed. But through the phone conversation, we can imagine how the person on the other side of the phone call may look. So after the phone call when the blogger lifts his camera we suddenly see a man standing right in front of him staring at him with anger. Blogger sees him, the man jumps on the camera lens and we see the reaction of Ashish, he is sweating like anything. All of a sudden he realises that he is standing in the exact position where the blogger was standing. We hear a phone ring. Ashish is super frightened. And we cut.

The Bungalow (Film/Web) - Arun with his wife, Nivedita and two daughters Adhya and Niki moves into their newly bought bungalow as their second home. It's a very beautiful beachside bungalow. The family feels lucky to have a great price deal for the bungalow of this size. During the house warming party, few of the guest experience the appearance of a little girl under some strange circumstances. When they confronted Arun regarding the girl, he simply dismisses everyone's view and turns it into a joke of alcohol effect. But soon Niki the younger daughter of Arun also start seeing a young girl in and around their house. Some strange incidents also kick in during the night and the day time.

Finally, everyone in the family believes that they all might be living with a ghost. But it is only Niki who can see the girl. Others can only feel it. The dead girl is of the same age of Niki. Arun decides to dig into the case with his family and with the help of Niki they start solving the mysterious case of the girl.

The party (Film/Web) - 3 young couples come for a holiday on a beach house/bungalow. They are greeted by a strange and aged caretaker. During the first night when all the young couples were dancing and drinking, the light goes off. After few minutes of darkness suddenly they hear a song 'gumnam hai koi' types in a male voice. They all get shocked. We see a shadow crossing the windows one by one, moving towards their main entrance. Suddenly the light comes in and the shadow vanishes. When they look at the main entrance we see the caretaker is standing. They all shouts at him but he convinces them that it's not him. There is a spirit which gets attracted if music comes from this hall. By that time the group realises that one of the 6 friends was missing. And they discover the dead body of him beside the sofa. The mystery continues as some more friends under mysterious circumstances dies, the spirit of appears few more times. With a twist in the end the mystery has to be solved before the sunrise.

Ichha-Moti (Film/Drama) - Moti (means pearl) is a young girl who lives on the outskirts of Kolkata near the Bangladesh border. River Icchamoti runs parallel to Moti's village. Her fascination regarding the people of Bangladesh who lives on the other side of the river grows with her age. She dreams of living with the people of Bangladesh one day. The happiest day of her life is the day of Durga visarjan when the Indo-Bangladesh border is removed for a few hours and the people from both sides can interact with each other. They come down with food and exchange happiness with Indian people and the same happens on the other side. Moti has started believing that people on the other side is sweeter than the people of her own country. Life moves on as she falls in love with a young Indian boy who is also a very good folk singer. Slowly the boy comes to know about Moti's fascination of living on the other side of the river. Moti is from a higher cast and her father refuses to accept her lover who is an orphan. But they promise each other that they might separate but they will love each other for life long. Soon Moti gets a marriage offer from a Bangladeshi boy from a business family. Moti's dream of living on the other side of the river has finally come true. She leaves behind her lover as she crosses the icchamoti river but she promises him to visit her lover on every Durga visarjan day. After a few years, we see Moti not so happy after her marriage. Her freedom is lost, she stays within the inner circle of her husband's house, can't sing with her husband as he doesn't like music & song. He is more of a business person who like numbers more than anything. This time she waits eagerly for the Durga puja. And reaches the river bank very early. Somehow her husband sees her crossing the river alone and ask someone to follow her. Moti confronts her condition to her Indian lover. She doesn't want to go back now. But that is not possible so she is forced to go back with a promise that her Indian lover will think of a better solution than running away from her husband. On the other hand, when Moti's husband comes to know about her secret lover he breaks down, he loses focus in his business, starts drinking. One afternoon when moti's husband suddenly returns home early he finds Moti writing a letter. He hides for the moment, later in the night when Moti was deeply asleep, he opens her diary and starts reading her letter, which says that on this durga visarjan day she will run away. During the durga utsav moti's lover receives her letter. But ma durga has some other plans. The Visarjan day turns out to be a rainy day. Moti is getting impatient, her husband can clearly notice her restlessness. We see elders are playing sindur utsav on the visarjan morning on the backdrop of a heavy rain. On the other side Moti's lover is on his way to the riverside, traveling to reach the bank of ichhamati as soon as possible. He is totally drenched in water. But he keeps walking. In the sindur utsav Moti's husband can notice how she is avoiding the sindur play, her mind is somewhere else. Anger takes over her husband and he calls his assistant. By the time Moti's lover reaches the bank of Ichhamoti it is high tide. River icchamati is furious. Durga idol is waiting in the rain, her face is getting washed with the redness of the sindur, giving a clear indication on the upcoming danger. Moti's lover is looking for a boat, boatman says 'this is ichha mati, we must not touch her when she is furious, she can take everything inside her'. Hearing this he becomes more worried. Finally we see Moti with a black umbrella, white saree in which she played the sindur utsav secretly comes to the river bank in the darkness of the stormy night. She looks like ma durga. Suddenly she faces her husband with a double barrel gun in his hand. But to her surprise her husband supports her. In his confrontation he says that he has failed to give her the freedom. Loving someone in a cage is not love but slavary. It is the freedom that is more important which her lover has given her. So her true love is her lover not her husband. She must leave and today no one can stop her. He shows her a boat that he has arranged for her to cross the river. But as they start moving towards the boat we hear the sound of a moving crowd. Moti's husband stays back to tackle the crowd and Moti moves on the boat, rows into the darkness of the river and soon vanishes into the roaring water of icchamati. Early next morning the durga which was waiting all night for visarjan is finally pushed into the water. We see the Lover and the husband are still waiting at the banks of their respective country. Two possible ending 1. we suddenly hear a scream of a lady, calling Moti's name. we see Moti's face half-submerged in the river water just like we see Ma durga after visarjan. 2. we see some one approaches the husband saying 'lets go now, she must have reached safely' on the other side the lover is being convinced saying she must have changed her mind. And then we see moti's face in the river water submerged. the end

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