In 1969, film-maker Ritwik Ghatak and poet Binoy Majumdar found themselves together in Calcutta’s Gobra Mental Hospital, where they exchanged letters and collaborated
on a play. Drawing on their real correspondence, Letters from the Asylum weaves fact with fiction through the discovery of these forgotten letters by a young photojournalist. A
poignant exploration of art, madness, memory, Partition, love, and the fragile boundary between genius and breakdown.