Aditya vikram Sengupta’s debut Bengali film, Asha Jaoar Majhe (Labour of Love), recently won the Best Director award in Venice Days, an independent sidebar of the Venice International Film Festival. The 30-year-old adman-filmmaker’s labour of love is set in Kolkata during the 2009 recession and stars Ritwick Chakraborty and Basabdutta Chatterjee. It will also be screened at the upcoming Busan International Film Festival and the BFI London Film festival, before Sengupta looks for distributors to release it in India.

A still from the movie Asha Jaoar Majhe (Labour of Love)