Private Project

Yakasi’s Daughter

14-year-old school dropout Jariyum and her 17-year fiancé Migam live a traditional life with their families in a remote, nondescript riverine island somewhere in Upper Assam where only certainty is uncertainty thanks to perennial natural calamities. Members of the Mising Community, the oldest plain tribe in Assam, their day-to-day existence often turns out to be a formidable challenge amidst extreme poverty and extremely poor infrastructure. Visible community degeneration further compounds the cumulative scenario in the terrain where the State ironically exists only in elections, yet there they fend for themselves, live their dreams and aspirations battling all that impasse. Thus, Jariyum’s biggest dream is to slip into a conjugal life better and more bearable than her mother Yakasi’s. Will her dream come true once she elopes and settles with her fiancé? Or, will she have to embrace and reconcile to her mother Yakasi’s pathetic life of domestic drudgery?

  • Dr. Jayanta Madhab Dutta
    Director
  • Rajeswar Saikia
    Producer
  • Amrit Pritam Dutta
    Co-Producers
  • Debojit Changmai
    Co-Producers
  • Dr. Jayanta Madhab Dutta
    Writer
  • Rajeswar Saikia
    Producer
  • Anjali Taid
    Key Cast
    "Jariyum"
  • Papujyoti Pegu
    Key Cast
    "Migam"
  • Junumai Pegu
    Key Cast
    "Yakasi"
  • Baneswar Pegu
    Key Cast
    "Baneswar"
  • Sadagar Daw
    Key Cast
    "Migam's father"
  • Purabi Panchami
    Script
  • Dr. Jayanta Madhab Dutta
    Dialouge
  • Saurav Saikia
    Director of Photography
  • Shashanka Saikia
    Director of Photography
  • Amrit Pritam
    Supervising Sound Editor
  • Debajit Changmai
    Supervising Sound Editor
  • Amrit Pritam
    Music Director
  • Bhagawat Pritam
    Music Director
  • Bikash Boruah
    Editor
  • Sujit Borah
    DI Colorist
  • Abhilekh Boruah
    Sound Recordist
  • Saurav Saikia
    Art Director
  • Jyotshna Pegu
    Costume
  • Samiran Dutta
    Make-up
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Yakasik Omédé
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 14 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 25, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    3,500,000 INR
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Other
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Dr. Jayanta Madhab Dutta

Jayanta Madhab Dutta, is a film society activist, documentary filmmaker, writer and translator based in Jorhat, Assam. He did his Masters in English and PhD from Dibrugarh University. He is the founder General Secretary of Assam Film Society. He also attended a short-term course in Film Appreciation in FTII, Pune in 2006. He is the director of Assam International Film Festival and the 1st Assam International Rural Film Festival held in Jorhat. His documentary Ganasilpi Moghai Ojah (2009) is a tribute to a legendary artiste of Assam. He has co-edited with Manoj Barpujari Glimpses of Cinemas from India’s North-East, a book on cinemas of north east India.

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Director Statement

Yakasik Omédé (Yakasi’s Daughter) tries to explore through Jariyum’s struggle the resilience and quiet strength of those who survive in the face of systematic neglect and natural calamity.