The Slow Man and His Raft

Release Date: 2025-02-03

Overview: Set in rural Bengal, Pradipta Bhattacharyya’s contemplative drama about the human condition, The Slow Man and His Raft, centres on Nadhar, a motion-impaired, middle-aged man, “slower than a sloth”, who is swept into a touring circus following the death of his caregiving mother. Nadhar is something of a relic, a slow man stranded in a frantic, productive society. For those around him, his slowness can at best serve as a derisory spectacle. An expansive meditation on human nature, slowness and being profoundly out of step with the world.

Rating: 4 / 10

Cast

Amit Saha

as Nadhar

Ritwick Chakraborty

as

Priyanka Sarkar

as

Aparajita Ghosh Das

as

Satakshi Nandy

as