Writer
인도인 엄마와 영국인 아버지 사이에서 태어난 아나미카는 치매가 진행 중인 엄마를 돌보기 위해 돌아온다. 하지만 두 모녀의 관계는 녹록지 않다. 젊은 시절 유망한 성악가였던 어머니는 뜻하지 않게 낯선 영국으로 이민을 오게 되고 계획에 없던 딸을 낳아 홀로 키워야 했기에 감성적이면서도 완강하다. 하얀 피부의 딸은 어린 시절 스스로를 입양아라고 거짓말을 했고, 열 살 때 아버지의 사망 이후 어머니에게 받은 상처는 트라우마가 되었다. 서로에게 드리운 그림자를 덜어내고 화해를 하기에는 짧게 남은 시간. 어머니의 병세가 악화되는 가운데 아나미카는 의료와 법적인 문제, 그리고 자신의 커리어와 곧 닥칠 일들에 대한 준비를 해야 한다.
Director
인도인 엄마와 영국인 아버지 사이에서 태어난 아나미카는 치매가 진행 중인 엄마를 돌보기 위해 돌아온다. 하지만 두 모녀의 관계는 녹록지 않다. 젊은 시절 유망한 성악가였던 어머니는 뜻하지 않게 낯선 영국으로 이민을 오게 되고 계획에 없던 딸을 낳아 홀로 키워야 했기에 감성적이면서도 완강하다. 하얀 피부의 딸은 어린 시절 스스로를 입양아라고 거짓말을 했고, 열 살 때 아버지의 사망 이후 어머니에게 받은 상처는 트라우마가 되었다. 서로에게 드리운 그림자를 덜어내고 화해를 하기에는 짧게 남은 시간. 어머니의 병세가 악화되는 가운데 아나미카는 의료와 법적인 문제, 그리고 자신의 커리어와 곧 닥칠 일들에 대한 준비를 해야 한다.
Cinematography
A North Indian couple, in their early 60s, at their mountain retreat. Their son has just gotten married, a reception has ended and all the guests have left. She chooses this moment to tell her husband that she is leaving. What follows is an endless day: the avalanche of this long-gathering decision and what it means to a decades-long relationship. Fragments of conversations, silence and chaos, as nostalgia mingles with menace and tenderness with cruelty. What will they succeed in rescuing against the landslide of memory and emotion?
Director
A North Indian couple, in their early 60s, at their mountain retreat. Their son has just gotten married, a reception has ended and all the guests have left. She chooses this moment to tell her husband that she is leaving. What follows is an endless day: the avalanche of this long-gathering decision and what it means to a decades-long relationship. Fragments of conversations, silence and chaos, as nostalgia mingles with menace and tenderness with cruelty. What will they succeed in rescuing against the landslide of memory and emotion?
Director of Photography
Set in bureaucratic Lutyens’ Delhi and ancient exotic Jaisalmer, Chai Pani etc. is a bittersweet coming of age story, of earnest US returned filmmaker, Satya. While subtle intense newbie, Zafar Karachiwala, as the idealistic Satya, struggles against official sloth, hypocrisy, corruption, and censorship, Konkona Sen ( National Award - Best Actress) brilliantly plays the two modern women who battle for his heart: the fun loving, ambitious fashion designer Radha and the elegant, sensitive Shanti, who works in a charity. Adding to the chaos, is hilarious Sinia Duggal as Satya’s pushy aunt, who tries to trap him into a traditional marriage and hysterically funny Gaurav Kapur, as Satya’s cynical friend, who lives by the perverted rules of networks of power and patronage.
Cinematography
"Chapal Bhaduri, a leading lady of Bengal’s traditional folk traveling theatre-in-the-round, the Jatra, spent his life playing women. This film is an intimate biography that brings you face to face with this unique individual, sharing what it means to him to become a woman night after night, talking of the woman inside his body, of troubled sexuality, of a long partnership with his older lover, of the loneliness of living on the edges of conventional society–and showing how he metamorphoses into the goddess to perform her story." - The Bangalore International Centre
Editor
"Chapal Bhaduri, a leading lady of Bengal’s traditional folk traveling theatre-in-the-round, the Jatra, spent his life playing women. This film is an intimate biography that brings you face to face with this unique individual, sharing what it means to him to become a woman night after night, talking of the woman inside his body, of troubled sexuality, of a long partnership with his older lover, of the loneliness of living on the edges of conventional society–and showing how he metamorphoses into the goddess to perform her story." - The Bangalore International Centre
