The Cloud & The Man is the story of Manik who lives in the crumbling city of Kolkata.
Loner by nature and asocial by choice, he lives with his ailing father who is nothing more
than an alarm clock to him. Manik leads an ‘uneventful’ life which revolves around his plants,
the strays he feeds, the spider, the ants and the house lizard. Manik’s father passes away one
day and Manik finds himself in a quandary. The landlord serves hm a month’s notice to
vacate the rented house and the world around him starts falling apart, and that is the time,
Manik meets someone, a constant companion, that changes his life.
The surreal romance introduces us to a new Manik but how long can this romance last?
Writer director Abhinandan Banerjee says, nature has always been a great inspiration for him
and believes that nature was always the primary cynosure in every medium. “It is the
unavoidable compass, in this infinite universe”.
But as Banerjee grew up, he discovered that romanticism between the man and nature was
slowly withering and his attempt via Manikbabur Megh is to translate a personal moment,
when a cloud turned up in the sky on a super sunny day to protect him.