BHUBANESWAR: Asked "What is your greatest ambition?" in Jean Luc Godard's "Breathless", Parvulesco the writer says: "To become immortal, and then die."
Juxtapose that with the words of a lead character in "Adieu Godard", who, when asked how he could meet a Frenchman like Godard, says "He will come to meet me!". And we have cinema, at its surreal best.
Amartya Bhattacharya was promoting his Odia tribute film last Tuesday when news of the cinema maestro willfully breathing his last reached him.