Private Project

Kichukhon (For a While)


In Nayagram, a small village in Bengal, nine-year-old Phul loves to play. From morning till dusk, she runs through fields and courtyards, playing folk games taught by elders, friends and her sister Priyanka. The games are simple—made from stones, sticks, or old dolls—but they fill her days and imagination.

Now things are changing. One after another, her sister’s friends are getting married and leaving the village. With them, the games are disappearing. The playground feels empty. Children her age no longer join in—they sit indoors, maybe busy with mobile phones.

At home, Phul’s family grows upset. They want her to study more and play less. The family decided to send her to live with relatives in town to study. For Phul, it means leaving not just her home, but the last one who still remembers the games.

Filmed over five years, Kichukhon (For a While) is a gentle story about a girl trying to hold on to a disappearing world. It is about childhood, change, and the slow fading of village life.

And as the seasons pass in Nayagram, one quiet question lingers: how long can a game survive when the world around it no longer plays?

  • Banamali Sarkar
    Director
  • Banamali Sarkar
    Writer
  • Banamali Sarkar
    Producer
  • Phul Hui
    Key Cast
  • Priyanka Hui
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 2 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 1, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    1,000,000 INR
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Bengali
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Banamali Sarkar

Banamali Sarkar is a Kolkata-based film editor and filmmaker with over a decade in the Bengali film industry. A Roopkala Kendro graduate, his editing spans feature films, documentaries, and artistic collaborations marked by emotional rhythm and human sensitivity.
With Kichukkhon (For A While), his directorial debut, Banamali draws on his rural Bengal childhood to explore fading folk games, shared memories, and enduring human bonds— crafting cinema rooted in lived experience, emotion, and the quiet poetry of everyday life.

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Director Statement

I grew up in rural Bengal, where the simplest games—made from stones, sticks, or cloth—held entire worlds. They taught us friendship, patience, and joy. Today, these games are vanishing, replaced by screens and silence. Kichukkhon is my attempt to preserve a fragment of that world, to witness a childhood resisting change, and to ask—how long can a game survive when the world stops playing?