Charaiveti (2022)

In February 2017, Chandan Biswas, a resident of Barasat, West Bengal set off on his bicycle on an arduous journey of 153 days, traversing 6249 km, crisscrossing 4 different countries to become the first man to complete the Trans-Himalayan expedition on a bicycle. Armed with a fixed lens go pro camera, Chandan shot this incredible and spectacular journey of his and came back with a footage of over 52 hours. "Charaiveti" was born from this very footage. "Charaiveti" is a point-of-view personal diary about Chandan's desire to create a new record. For a man who is otherwise afraid of wolves, scared of waterfalls, wary of landslides, seeks tea at every nook and corner--Charaiveti is not a film about a super hero adventurer. Charaiveti is an inward journey of a man discovering and conquering one's fears and living to tell the tale. The film is also a journey into realizing that records are not what an adventurer's journeys are about. It is much more and beyond. It is about the lost songs from childhood, of missing old friends, making new ones, that feeling of homesickness and the desire to return home to have mom's fish curry. Charaiveti. For the unflinching traveler in all of us.