Spandan Banerjee

You Don't Belong is a 2011 music documentary that follows a popular 80's Bengali song known as traditional and locates the author of the song. Myth and memory, folk and copyright, home and migration are the larger narratives emerging from the journey of a song from the margins into the urban mainstream.

The song was first popularized during the emergence of Bengali bands interspersing rock and folk to capture contemporary displaced realities. Reproduced and distributed by the flourishing recording industry as representative of the folk traditions of Bengal. Traveling across known and remembered lands, following the unseen path of migration that music takes, You Don't Belong asks some important questions about the encounter between art and mass production, creation and ownership in a country of myriad folk and oral traditions.

The Jury citation of To-Let by IDSFFK states, much like a jazz jam, the film takes us on a journey through the plight of the modern urban nomad in search of a home in a modern-day Delhi. Drawing on a mosaic of all too familiar situations, the director creates a funny and poignant ballad that really grooves.

Rotterdam Film Festival described his 2008 film Beware Dogs as "a poetic and exciting documentary on the contemporary music group Indian Ocean. The film depicts the creative struggle of four musicians who are together on their artistic journey, sharing their inner joy, fears, laughs, thoughts and putting it all in their songs. With a lyrical, rather slow pace, yet in a cinema vérité manner, the film shares with us the excitement and the inner battle of the process of creating music.^[11]

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