Prosperity and strife go hand in hand in the country without collision, but that is a veneer only. The tension between the two often erupts into conflicts but these are brutally suppressed by the State.
Ghosh says one can see India in cities dominated by multiplexes, malls and educated middle class, whereas Bharat is peopled by tribals and the deprived caught in a war between the State and so-called 'adversaries'.
"The red corridor runs through mineral-rich Bharat in eastern India and elsewhere," Ghosh told PTI.
Ghosh says while in National Award-winning "Moner Manush" he had wanted to speak on the issue of religious intolerance, here in "Shunyo Awnko" he presents the story of two seemingly disparate worlds.
"And again in cities where the elite, educated and the subalterns coexist, there lies another gap - a gap between a people who remain unmoved by all your media reports on GDP rise and fall and another who are exercised by them," the filmmaker said. (MORE)
