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The Academy of Fine Arts

Asian Premiere

146 minutes | 2025 | India | Drama – Comedy | 🔊 Bengali

Synopsis
Sinopsis

The Academy of Fine Arts is a genre-bending tale of crime, comedy, and tragedy, where each character embodies one of the seven deadly sins. In this world, crime is not chaos—it’s a finely crafted art. A mysterious man, “No Name Dog,” assembles a crew of criminals—all working under brutal gang lord Kimling—to steal a legendary liquor bottle, the MacGuffin, from Kimling himself. When they track down the bottle, they find two identical MacGuffins—one real, one fake. As they plan to flee with both, a teammate sabotages the job, sending the bottles back to Kimling.
Failed but undeterred, the team starts planning again, unaware that another pair—are also plotting to steal it. Against all odds, the crew pulls off the heist. They gather to celebrate, but the party turns violent when the rival team storms in- exposing secrets and the uncertainty of the real bottle and finally the true identity of No Name Dog surfaces and one by one as the trust collapses , the crew falls—not to bullets alone, but to their own sins. Only one man survives. Years later, he escapes prison to reclaim the MacGuffin, only to realise his greed had taken everything from him long before everything started.

Schedule
Jadwal

Tue, 2 Dec 2025 | 20:30 | EMPIRE XXI | Studio 4

Director's Biography
Biografi Sutradara
Jayabrata Das

Jayabrata Das

Jayabrata Das is a filmmaker from Contai, a suburb of west Bengal, India and a student of the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata. From a young age he was fascinated by the works of the masters of cinema around the world. After graduating as an engineer, he pursued his dream of filmmaking by enrolling in film school.

In 2021, during his second year, he began work on his debut feature with the support of his film school peers from the Academy of Fine Arts. After four years of struggle and financial challenges, this independent film was finally completed in 2025. The film is a genre-blending comedy-thriller, rooted in satirical realism and visual rhythm, experimenting with a bold yet grounded storytelling approach—something unprecedented in Bengali cinema.

Credit
Kredit
Production CompanyCinenic, Pramod films
ProducerJayabrata Das, Prateek Chakravorty, Sanket Mishra, Manab Saha, Soumya Sarkar
DirectorJayabrata Das
ScriptwriterJayabrata Das
CinematographerArnab Laha, Nabanil Sanyal
Production DesignerArnab Laha
EditorAashik Sarkar
Main CastRudranil Ghosh, Sourav Das, Amit Saha, Rahul Banerjee, Payel Sarkar, Rishav Basu, Sudip Bandopadhyay, Anuradha Mukherjee
Director’s filmography
Notable Achievement
Contact[email protected]

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