YATRA

2006

 
CAST
Nana Patekar, Rekha, Deepti Naval, Nakul Vaid, Bharti Debi, Anandi Ghose, Romit Raaj, Jeeva, Masood Akhtar

CREDITS
Story, Screenplay, Editing, Music – Gautam Ghose
Producer – Bipin Vohra (SPS Arts & Entertainment)
Sets – Samir Chanda
Sound Design – Anup Mukhopadhyay
Choreography – Birju Maharaj
Costumes – Neelanjana Ghose
Still Photographs – Sujit Sarkar

STORY
Dasrath Joglekar (Nana Patekar), a celebrated writer travels to Delhi to receive the prestigious 'Elegant Sahitya Samman'. During the journey he meets a young filmmaker (Nakul Vaid) who is an ardent fan of Dasrath's writing. The encounter with the aspiring filmmaker brings back memories from Dasrath's past. Both of them travel back in time, remembering characters from Dasrath's celebrated novel JANAZA. Both of them reconstruct the true story of the novel's protagonist – Lajvanti (Rekha) – from their own perspective; the writer's own personal experience and the filmmaker's vision and dream of making a film out of it. The writer also travels back and forth in time in an unique journey with his wife Smita (Deepti Naval) reliving various characters and moments of his life and imagination.  Thus fact and fiction merge together to create a new journey.

After the gala award ceremony in New Delhi, Dasrath begins another journey. The concept of his new novel and nostalgia of the previous one haunts him. Dasrath disappears from his hotel without informing the organizers. Tension mounts in his family and among other associates. Where does he go? Why the sudden disappearance? What happens to him? The unknown journey of Dasrath Joglekar leads to the climax.