Dwaar

The story is set against the backdrop of the Assam agitation and its aftermath. Dwijen Bhattacharya is a young academic and writer whose involvement in the student movement leaves lasting scars on his personal and professional life. While trying to write a novel of love, he ironically loses intimacy with his wife Manosi. Their marriage goes through a rough phase. Dwijen suffers neurotic hallucinations and severe depression and tries to break free from everyday life by pulling away from his academic and personal responsibilities.

After Anuraag (2004), this was Chakravarty's fifth film as director. He had been turning the idea over since reading Apurba Sarma's story Bahiroloi Jowa Baat in 1988. As he explained, the original is less a conventional story than a state of mind, written in the days of the Foreigners' Movement, and his film tries to reflect the mindset of ordinary people of that time. Producer Sanjive Narain described making cinema as a social responsibility.

Shooting ran from November 2010 to March 2011 under the working title The Gateway, mostly in Guwahati and Nameri, with post-production in Chennai. Kapil Bora, who plays Dwijen, took part in many workshops to prepare, and most of his scenes are silent or nearly so. The film carries English subtitles.

Dwaar won the awards for Best Director, Best Music and Best Audiography at the Assam State Film Awards for 2010 to 2012.

Its introspective treatment of the political upheaval of the 1980s makes it one of the more reflective films about that period.