Director: Subash Sahoo
Summary: Once there was a small nondescript village with simple inhabitants, simple traditions and simple value system. She was the custodian of those traditions, that value system; she was the one the whole village looked up for guidance. She was as relevant as the river that flowed through the village. She is generally known as "Seba Bou" (Seba's mother) as the nomenclature practice of the inhabitants. She groomed girls reaching puberty in art of weaving, handicrafts and artefacts making, cooking, greeting, mannerisms... all those set skills that a young woman needs to be a good wife and good daughter in law. And of course, she used to teach them the art of "Kandana", the mellifluous singing art depicting the pain and longing of a girl. The film was in the making for a period of 18 years.The times have changed. The villages are not the same nor the value systems. In the post globalized world, as the centuries old tradition erodes, the film attempts to nostalgically look back at the last custodian of old tradition through the eyes of her son. This is a journey of a son towards his mother and his motherland.
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