Charaiveti

Documentary | 2021 | Col | 1h 12m

Summary

In February 2017, Chandan Biswas, a resident of Barasat, West Bengal set off on his bicycle on an arduous journey of 153 days, traversing 6249 kms, crisscrossing 4 different countries to become the first man to complete the Trans-Himalayan expedition on a bicycle.

Armed with a fixed lens go pro camera, Chandan shot this incredible and spectacular journey of his and came back with a footage of over 52 hours. Charaiveti was born out of this very footage.

Charaiveti is a point of view personal diary about Chandan’s desire to create a new record. For a man who is otherwise afraid of wolves, scared of waterfalls, wary of landslides, seeks tea at every nook and corner - Charaiveti is not a film about a super hero adventurer. Charaiveti is an inward journey of a man discovering and conquering one's fears and living to tell the tale.>br?>br?The film is also a journey into realizing that records are not what an adventurer’s journeys are about. It is much more and beyond. It is about the lost songs from childhood, of missing old friends, making new ones, that feeling of homesickness and the desire to return home to have mom’s fish curry.

Charaiveti. For the unflinching traveller in all of us…

Director: Bauddhayan Mukherji , Chandan Biswas
Type: Documentary
Year of completion: 2021
Country of origin: India

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