Producer: Sanjay Jha and Mathew Varghese
Director: Sanjay Jha
Cast: Adam Bedi (Introducing), Sandhya Mridul, Vineet Kumar, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Sanjay Kumar and Deepak Kumar
Singers: Zubeen Garg, Shaswati, Brishti Saikia, Anandita Paul, Sourain Roy Choudhuri and Angaraag Mahanta
Music: Zubeen Garg
Lyrics: Dr. Deepak Sneh, Ajay Jhingran, Zubeen Garg, Minu Singh, Sumeet Acharya and Baba Nagarjuna
Cinematography: Rajeev Shrivastava
Choreography: Baba Yadav
Sound: Naeem Sheikh
Screenplay/Story/Writer: Sanjay Jha
Editor: Hemanti Sarkar
Art: Bidhan Guha
Cassettes and CD's on: Saregama-HMV
Released on: 14 July 2006
Strings is an exquisite travelogue love story. Warren Hastings, a British youth who has been persuaded to experience the Mahakumbh at the behest of his email friend, Maya, a cosmopolitan and Indian urban girl. Warren has another mission though. Warren is plagued by a sort of unfulfilled quest, for an understanding of the mysticism of India, beyond his realms of imagination. This has been nurtured within him by the writings of his grandfather in a personal diary written during his posting in India. Warren is a sensitive person and hence has set upon a journey to unravel the secrets. His quest is provoked by the reasoning of his grandfather as written in the personal diary.
Warren then meets Krishna, the only child of a temple priest Pandit Dinanath. Pandit Dinanath a widower has brought up Krishna since the loss of his wife at child birth. Krishna is filled with a sort of guilt and remorse because of her mother’s death for which she unconsciously blames herself. Pandit Dinanath by his teaching and logic has freed Krishna from her guilt. Krishna has grown up with an essence of Indian culture and its values, holding firm opinion and respect for her culture and religious traditions.
Krishna is a blend of having imbibed the richness of Indian culture while fitting in with contemporary life and thinking. Warren and Krishna meet in the backdrop of chaos and conflicts. Their diversity soon brings them close to each other, and is soon privy to the orchestrations of love. For her to accept the feelings she has for Warren and gives in to a forbidden love, is difficult. She does so define the tenets of her upbringing. Their life is blissful and stands tall to the power of togetherness until one day Krishna sheds her inhibitions and succumbs to her feelings. It is the tale of a girl who stands tall to the virtue of love and who is ready to shed her ethos even to the extent of defying her father, who has sacrificed his whole life for her happiness. The most hurtful aspect is the need to question her father, who has been her single minded support in life. An intriguing thought definitely is from where Krishna gathers this inner strength.
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