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Surmayee Shaam
(Approx Duration: 130 minutes)
Without memory, we are nothing…
-- Louis Bunuel
Surmayee
Shaam tells the story of a talented and successful
but broken family, which comes together at a time when family crisis is
at its worst. At the center of this is a larger-than-life character of
Srikant Joshi, who is struck with Alzheimer's Disease and has started
losing memory.
The
way two completely different personality types, the father-son duo, come
around is remarkable in its poignancy. Equally touching is the unstated
bond between the father-in-law and the daughter-in-law, both of whom have
been terribly lonely in the family.
All
his life, amidst a remarkable professional achievement, Joshi has always
played around with myth and reality, fact and fiction. With the onset and
progress of Alzheimer's, these elements acquire ironic dimensions. When
Srikant Joshi is awarded the highest civilian award in the country, the
Padma Bibhushan, a great story teller all his life, he is barely able to
speak or even understand the honor bestowed upon him. The entire family,
however, rises to the occasion, helping him carry off the show with
dignity and honor.
Towards
the end, his son (who has resisted his father's grand romantic vision all
his life), takes on even the task of weaving tales and completing his
father's story, the last part of which he has never told to anyone.
Seedha Raasta Tedhi
Chaal
(Approx Duration: 130 minutes)
In
this dark sex-comedy, set in an old-fashioned spa town, six characters
are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman
boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich industrialist; a popular
ghazal singer and his beautiful but obsessively jealous wife.
Seedha
Rasta Tedhi Chaal is set in the genre of a landmark Indian comedy, Jane
Bhi Do Yaro and poses the most serious questions of contemporary
consumeristic world with a blasphemous lightness. The result is a
whirlwind ride of fantastic but connected events, through a midsummer's
night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years,
interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous.
Chaak Chale Chaak
(Approx Duration: 150 minutes)
A
family saga of a quasi-royal family from the beginning of the 20th
century till the current times, Chaak Chale Chaak attempts to explore the
nation's (India) history through three love stories spread over three
generations --- all of which are inescapably connected with a flower tree
in the family campus.
In
the process, the film aims to examine the complex ethical and moral
issues involved with power, love and lust --- the way it has changed
through the past decades.
Ek Aur Bachpan (A Different
Childhood)
(Approx Duration: 120 minutes)
Slotted
for production under filmmaker Praksh Jha's banner, Ek Aur Bachpan (A Different
Childhood) takes up the story of a nine year old girl, Chanda, in search
of her younger brother, against the insidious backdrop of bonded child
labor, in which they both are viciously trapped.
In
the process, Chanda encounters a series of insurmountable odds, which she
must tackle to find out and rescue her seven year old brother. The film
aims to explore some of the compelling situations that perpetuate this
pervasive and exploitative practice and generate outrage (as well as
possible solutions) to deal with this malignant social reality.
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