General Information
Completed On: 29 Jan, 2021
Duration: 24 min 57 sec
Genres: Fiction, Short
Language: Bengali
Country: India
Submitted By: Mrinmoy Nandi
Festival Rating
Set in the backdrop of the lockdown announced in India, to prevent the spread of the Covid-19, this film captures such an Indian middle class family from the state of West Bengal. Coping with the new situation, stranded at home, a Bengali couple with their young two children revisited their family relations and enjoyed spending quality family life together. The anxiety prevailed the time due to different confusing interpretations and anticipations towards to the dangerous new virus. The supply chain of cigarettes was badly affected. The middle-class family structure never can accept women smoking and considers that being in contradiction to the respectable femininity that drives the reputation of the Indian family value system identifying the Nation. Hence, the daughter never had the courage to confess the fact of her smoking habits to her family. The son and the father could go out of the house though rarely and buy their pack of cigarettes, but the daughter couldn’t. Her thirst for cigarettes drove her into a constant tension with her parents, which also invited funny suspense from them about her. Lastly, to save the respectability of their family design, the family suppresses the daughter’s little chances of revolting against the patriarchy. They provide her the much craved pack of cigarettes but mitigating her objection against this imposition of the structure.
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DirectorsMrinmoy Nandi
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ProducersMrinmoy Nandi
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WritersMrinmoy Nandi
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CinematographerSourabh Kanti Dutta
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EditingEshan Sil
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Location SoundSourav Gupta
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Sound Design & MixingSukanta Majumdar
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MusicKanishka Sarkar
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Film TypeFiction, Short
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GenresDrama
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Runtime24 minutes 57 seconds
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Completion Date29 Jan, 2021
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Production BudgetUSD
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Country of OriginIndia
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Country of FilmingIndia
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Film LanguageBengali
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Shooting FormatDigital
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Aspect Ratio1.9:1
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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First-time FilmmakerNo
Director's Biography
Qualification:
Bachelor of Science, University of Calcutta
Post-Graduation in Cinematography, Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (SRFTI)
Film Direction
1. Somoyer Janalaguli (Windows of Time) - a feature length documentary
Award: Honorable Mention - Experimental Forum, 2022
Official Selection:
Film Southasia
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
Cinemaking International Film Festival
2. Dhumpaner Opokarita (Smoking blocks...) - a short film
Award:
Cine-Parbon International Short Film Carnival and Awards 2022 (Best Film, Best Story, Best Screenplay)
Official Selection:
International Moving Film Festival
Siliguri Short and Documentary Film Festival 2022
Vindhya International Film Festival Madhya Pradesh
Kalaburagi International Film Festival
Kolhapur International Short Film Festival
South Asian Short Film Festival
International Film Festival of Ahmednagar India
3. PIKLU- a short film
Best Film-1st Runner-Up & Best Cinematography Award, Cine-Parbon International Short Film Carnival and Awards 2020
Best Short Film & Best Editing, Pattaya International Film Festival 2020
Honorable Jury Mention, 10th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2020
Audience Choice Award, Tagore International Film Festival, 2020
Finalist, International Open Film Festival, Dhaka
Semi Finalist, Kalaburagi International Short Film festival 2020
Darbhanga International Film Festival, 2020
Siliguri Short & Documentary Film Festival, 2020
NexGn International Short Film Festival of India, 2020
3rd South Asian Short Film Festival 2020
Kalinga International Film Festival 2020
PlayButton Short Film Festival 2020
4. SHOHORNAMA (Urban shorts)
Special Jury Mention, National Documentary Short Film Festival 2018
5. KHELNABATI (Play Things), Documentary
Silver Palm - Mexico International film festival, 2012
0110 International Digital Film Festival
International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala
6. ANIMAR AAKASH - a short fiction film on gender politics prevails in rural India
Cinephile 2015
Cinematography
SUNDER JIBAN (Rajat Kamal, National Award in 2002, Best Short Fiction Film)
Significant Works as Cinematographer
Documentaries
MURMURS OF SILENCE. A Documentary on Central Library. University of Calcutta
DIRT. An International Film. National Film Board, Canada, Production
SITA KAHINI. (A TALE OF SITA)
CHHINNA MAHAL. A cross-border Independent Film on
Chitmahals of India and Bangladesh
LEGENDS - a documentary film on MANNA DEY. Produced by HMV SA RE GA MA
SHABNAM. 30mins. A Documentary on THE FIRST WOMAN KAZI OF INDIA, for PSBT, India
A Documentary on THE SATRA AHASABHA, ASSAM
URMI-CHANGEMAKER. A BBC series
MARITIME INDIA. A Documentary for a European Channel
AUDREY’S DRESS. A Documentary with DOMINIQUE
LAPIERRE for a French and a Spanish Channel
GHOST OF EMPIRE. A Documentary on the works of famous Irish Sculptor JOHN HENRY FOLEY for HISTORY CHANNEL
Feature Films
ANTAR BAHIR
MAHALAYA
BAROOD
JHUMURA
BASANTA UTSAV
TOBEY TAI HOK
GHENTE GHAW
PA MA GA RE SAA
PURPLE HAZE
Short Film
DOUR (RUN)
SAHORE (IN THE CITY)
POISON
LOVE ITERLUDE
THE WINDOW
SUNDER JIBAN (National Award in 2003)
Activities
Recently completed an extensive research based audiovisual documentation project for Cultural Research Institute, Kolkata on art, culture and crafts of 10 scheduled tribes of North Bengal.
Editor of www.kaahon.com, the leading web portal researching, documenting and archiving art & cultural activities of present and past.
Director's Statement
Any attempts to question the respectable femininity can be curbed by any means to hail the core traditional family structure and preserve the cultural authority of the State through the women.
