Movie Discovery of the Day: Cycle Mahesh (2024) by Suhel Banerjee

When a lockdown is announced in India, 22-year-old Mahesh finds himself stranded and decides to travel home on a rickety bicycle. He covers about 2,000 kilometers in seven days. It turns him into a national media hype.Politicians promise better living conditions, neighbors joke about sending him to the Olympic Games, a filmmaker from Mumbai decides to make a film about him. But nothing comes of any of it, and before long he is just a poor plumber again. Winner Award for Best First Feature, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2024. Link IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33808098/ Link Review: https://businessdoceurope.com/idfa-award-for-best-first-feature-cyclemahesh-by-suhel-banerjee/ About movie: https://www.cyclemahesh.in/ Link to watch: https://pro.festivalscope.com/film/cycle-mahesh