songs from a far away land
Only the one living on the border
Will create a land
Three siblings, brother Dinu and two sisters Anu and Buri meet on a seashore one morning after their mother's death. They reminiscence about their mother and her relentless journey in search of 'home. Gradually as they dwell
through their personal memories of 'mother' they unknowingly enter into unknown dark zones of mother and there own lives. The spirits of their ancestors too become part of their stories as the two sisters preform their memories. Dreams, fantasies, memories and reality starts to overlap to form a complex image of 'mother' in search of home.
Ditectors note:
I would like to call this film 'an exercise on improvisation,( in a musical sense ) on themes like 'home' , 'migration','crossing borders', 'identity' and most importantly the idea of 'home and woman'. Hence the film comes back to the same note/s (the image of mother and her search for home) again and again to find and form new combination (of notes) and constantly opens up new discourses centering around the above themes / ideas vis-a-vis the image of mother. The film also makes an effort to de-construct the age-old image of mother in Indian cinema.
What does the journey of the 'dead' means to the 'living' was another question that this film intends to explore. Doesn't the journey of the 'dead', (our ancestors') too leaves it's trace on us and take the shape and form of our journey? Journeys never stop. They grow deeper. Travelling also means an exploration of one's past.
Memory in the film is treated as an organic space, not fixed but filtered through the open wounds of the present.
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tuhinabha majumdarDirector
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sathanand rangarajCinematography
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pritish kumar chaisound designer
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ashwin kelkarEditor
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rajoo kumarproduction design
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tuhinabha majumdarWriter
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Dibyendu BhattacharyaKey Cast"DINU"
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mome bhattacharyaKey Cast"BURI"
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satakshi nandyKey Cast"DIDI"
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geeta guhaKey Cast"tribal women"
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FTII,IndiaProducer
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Project Type:Student
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Runtime:24 minutes
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Completion Date:March 13, 2020
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Production Budget:32,716 USD
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Country of Origin:India
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Language:Bengali
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Student Project:Yes