Banner: Bhatia Imperial Communications & Contrapunto Presents
Producer: Rajinder Singh Bhatia
Director: Avinash Nanda
Star Cast: Jitendra Kumar Biswal, Swapna Pati, Brijendra Kala, Preeti Jhangiani, Bijaya Jena, Aryan Vaid & Hemant Chaudhary.
Music: Shashan Ranjan, Rahul Arora & Sudeep Jena
Debutant director Avinash Nanda, hailing from ad world scenario, has come up with a very sensitive & emotional film named Two Desires And A Dream based on the life & times of a real life quadraplegic person. Indeed director Avinash Nanda in tandem with producer Rajinder Singh Bhatia deserves a standing salutational ovation.
Jitendra Kumar Biswal is a quadriplegic person with extreme disability since childhood. So much so that he can’t even move around on his own and is permanently wheel chair bound. He has a male companion Moin Chacha (Brijendra Kala) who looks after him and takes care of all his needs. Later on he has a relationship with Swapna (Swapna Pati) a normal girl. That too after months of online interaction and then has a chance encounter with her. Slowly, slowly Jitendra develops unexplained feelings for her. On the other hand actress & social activist Swapna tries to cure the paraplegic Jitendra with her pure love & passion albeit adopting a different approach which seems to speak of a total dedication.
No Doubt debutant director Avinash Nanda’s, hailing from the ad world scenario, is praiseworthy. He has tried to portray the real life story of Quadriplegic person with a very sensitive and emotional approach. But the slow pace of the movie proves to be a roadblock. Yet Avinash Nanda has tried his level best to enliven the proceedings to a certain extent with 3 soulful numbers and extracting noteworthy performances from most of the actors in brief cameos like Preeti Jhangiani, Bijaya Jena, Aryan Vaid et al.
Performance wise a special well – deserved mention goes to Jitendra Kumar Biswal who plays himself and enacts the role of the main protagonist, Swapna Pati, Brijendra Kala & Hemant Chaudhary.
Avinash Nanda’s Two Desires And A Dream is a good film but it needs a lot of word of mouth publicity to garner & generate audiences interest. It can prove to be more of a multiplex & festival circuit fare rather than the single theaters.
Tail Piece: At the Box Office turnstiles the film’s chances are fair.
