Winner of the Aravindan Puraskaram award, special mention jury award as best debutant director in Kerala while and an official selection in Kolkata International Film Festival, “The Eternal” (Ananta) is an intriguing film that focuses on the loneliness people feel for a number of reasons and the ways the use in order to overcome it.

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The story revolves around Suvo, a man in his 40s who seems to have given up after his mother’s death, living off the meager rents he receives from the apartment building he owns, and having only one friend who keeps “pestering” him with ideas to earn more money. Mistu is a young woman who teaches in a primary school, but her life is also in shambles. Her mother has also died and her alcoholic father torments her in various ways, one of which...