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THE CHURNING OF KALKI

KALKIMANTHANKATHA

By Ashish AVIKUNTHAK

WELTFILM GMBH - as PROD

Art - Culture - Completed 2015

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Drama, Social issues
- Countries
- INDIA, GERMANY
- Languages
- BENGALI, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 79 mn
- Director(s)
- Ashish AVIKUNTHAK
- Writer(s)
- Ashish AVIKUNTHAK
- Producer(s)
- Ashish AVIKUNTHAK (Avikunthak), Kristina KONRAD (WELTFILM GMBH)
- Synopsis
- Following the footsteps of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", two actor from Calcutta go to the largest gathering of humans on earth - the Hindu festival of Maha Kumbh of Allahabad in 2013, which occurs once in 12 years, to search for Kalki - the Tenth and the final avatar of Lord Vishnu. The most mysterious of Vishnu's Avatar who has been on earth but has never been found. However, an outbreak of a monumental war occurs during their quest. They then prepare themselves by reading Chairman Mao-se-Tung's "Little Red Book".