![]() ![]() By 1977, Shyam becomes an accomplished yet controversial writer of his time. Shyam and Maitreyi, having formally changed her name to Rosie, move to Calcutta where he starts working in a printing press. ![]() After a fight, Shyam leaps onto the statue of Durga, takes the sword, castrates him, and throws him onto burning coal, killing him and removing the necklace on Maitreyi, implying discontinuing her duties as Devadasi. Upon discovering this, an enraged Shyam attacks Mahant in the temple, during the Navaratri festival. Mahant physically assaults Rosie in anger and disrespects her by urinating on her. They decide to elope, however, on that night, the temple's high priest Mahant, who sexually preys on devadasis, selects a young girl to sleep with, which Rosie opposes. Shyam and Maitreyi fall for each other, and Shyam renames Maitreyi as Rosie. One night, he asks her to sneak out of the temple with him and she reluctantly agrees. Despite being an atheist, Shyam visits the temple every night to see Maitreyi. As his family disapproves of his methods, he decides to leave but stumbles upon Maitreyi, a devadasi from Bangladesh who dances in the temple during the Navaratri. In West Bengal in 1969, Shyam Singha Roy is an influential social reformer and revolutionary writer with communist ideologies, who comes from a conservative family. ![]() Upon Keerthi's suggestion, Vasu undergoes clinical hypnosis with the help of Keerthi's psychology professor, during which he reveals that he was Shyam Singha Roy in a past life and Rosie was his wife. Vasu pleads his innocence and after a successful polygraph test, the court releases him on unconditional bail and gives them 3 days to present their case. In court, strong evidence is presented against Vasu, and Keerthi's cousin Padmavathi takes up the case. A notable publishing house based in Kolkata, SR Publications, alleges that Vasu copied their best-selling novel Astitva written by Shyam Singha Roy fifty years ago. Vasu is offered to remake the film in Hindi but during a press conference for the remake in Mumbai, Vasu is arrested on charges of copyright infringement. A year later, Vasu releases his film, Uniki, which turns out to be successful. Impressed with the short film, the producer green-lights Vasu's feature film. In that ongoing fight, a guy hits him on his head, which leads him to ear bleeding and starts suffering from a psychological disorder that temporarily manifest him into a different personality. One day while shooting, some goons sexually harass Keerthi leading to Vasu fighting them. After some resistance, Keerthi agrees to act in the film, and the shoot is completed within a few days. To impress a film producer, he starts making a short film and finds Keerthi, a psychology graduate to be the lead. Vasu is an aspiring film director in Hyderabad. ![]() It emerged as a success in the box office. It was theatrically released on 24 December 2021 and opened to mixed to positive reviews with critics praising the direction, writing, music, editing, cinematography and cast performances (particularly Nani, Pallavi, Sebastian) while criticizing the screenplay. The film was announced in February 2020 and principal photography took place from December 2020 to July 2021 in Hyderabad and Kolkata. The film also stars with an ensemble supporting cast includes Krithi Shetty, Madonna Sebastian, Rahul Ravindran, Abhinav Gomatam, Jisshu Sengupta, Murali Sharma, Manish Wadhwa and others. From then on, he gets flashes of his past life as Shyam Singha Roy. One day, during the shooting of the short film, Vasu gets a rabbit punch during a brawl. She doesn’t put up with his creepy ways and gives it back. In the film, Vasu is an aspiring filmmaker who stalks Keerthy because he wants her to act in his short film. The film stars Nani in a dual role with Sai Pallavi played a prominent female lead role. Partly set in the backdrop of Kolkata in the 1970s, it is based on the theme of reincarnation. Shyam Singha Roy is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language period romantic drama film directed by Rahul Sankrityan. ![]()
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