Bhubaneswar: An independent film by a city-based IT professional Amartya Bhattacharyya was screened at a multiplex here on Sunday.

The film, Khyanikaa- The Lost Idea, has already made its mark at 12 international film festivals in eight countries.

Made on a shoestring budget, the film, the director said "is like a homemade piece of art where we haven't even used a postproduction studio".

"From colour grading to sound mixing, everything was done on my desktop. The film was shot on a DSLR camera and without any industry resources or equipment. It has been shot in and around the peripheries of Bhubaneswar and Puri," he said.

The film is a fantasy-driven tale of two men - a poet and a painter - claiming possession over the same idea, in a rural village portrayed as a wonderland. "Idea is personified as a beautiful young lady free of all bondage. The two men try to justify their claim over Idea through their forms of art," said Bhattacharyya.

Produced under by Swastik Arthouse, it features Amrita Chowdhury as Idea, Susant Misra and Swastik Choudhury as the aspiring painter and poet, respectively.

The filmmaker, who won the National Award for Best Cinematography (non-feature films) last year for his 80-minute film Benaras- The Unexplored Attachments, said: "Contextually, the film is extremely relevant in the present day where people are obsessed about copyrights to possess their ideas. The expression of an idea can be copyrighted but an idea is a free stream of consciousness.<> In my film, I've portrayed Idea as a free-flowing spirit that can neither be tamed, nor possessed."

"We have plans to release the film in other theatres across Odisha and in other Indian cities," he said.