Director: Saghir Ahmed; Writer: Saghir Ahmed; Cinematographer: Bidushree Bindhani; Cast: Prithviraj Mishra, Soumitra, Hemanth, Purna Bindhani, Dipen Ghosh, Soumendu Tripathi, Amrita Ahmed, Shivani Mahapatra
Summary: A courageous low-budget feature by Saghir
Ahmed who teaches script writing at the FTII.
The film addresses questions of rural
oppression in ways markedly different from its
usual treatment in Oriya cinema (cf.
Manmohan Mahapatra). A joint family is
partially fragmented when the patriarch’s only
son (Mishra), a political activist, has to spend
much of his time avoiding the police. The
family informally adopts two children and is
then blamed when one of them commits
suicide while escaping from Panchanan
(Ghosh), the children’s oppressive legal
guardian. The children’s mostly absent
journalist father (Mahapatra) causes the activist
to be arrested, but eventually all the players of
the drama come together. The director’s
daughter Amrita Ahmed played one of the two
children.
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