KHOWAB: Castle in the Air

Looms are an apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread. In this era of digital transformation, handlooms are getting obsolete, power looms are getting the place instead. But for many weavers, handlooms were the source of income for them for generations. Those handlooms were a point of emotion and memory lane for them, those carry their ancestors’ signatures. They never want to sell those signs, but reality compels them. In this story, a weaver called Kanchan faces this confusion. He doesn’t want to sell his family handloom, on the other hand, his wife is expecting, and they need to produce more sarees which is only possible by using a power loom. Kanchan’s ancestors come in the dream and request him not to sell the handloom. Kanchan was making a red jamdani saree for his wife, which was expensive in the market and a sign of his love and affection towards his wife. But Kanchan couldn’t keep the red jamdani for his wife, Mahajan (the cloth businessman) takes the saree from him forcefully before their biggest religious festival, Durga puja. Kanchan keeps trying to dream that, in the next Puja, he will be able to make a Red Jamdani for his wife. Dreams, those keep people alive, what more!