Title of film : Searching for Happiness
Director Name : Suman Ghosh
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Producer : Suman Ghosh
Editor : Sujay DattaRay
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Synopsis : Four year old Shahida paints a smile on a red balloon and calls it “Happiness”. Together with her mother she decides to float it, the idea being that it will spread happiness in the world. However she realizes that she is missing “happiness” in her own life and frantically starts searching for the balloon in the sky. Unable to track it she runs away from her apartment in the hope of finding “happiness” much to the dismay of her mother. Shahida's mother is desperately looking for her little girl who has left the house alone and is roaming the streets of Kolkata “Searching for Happiness“. Shahida's journey intersects with other characters - a rickshaw puller, a waste collector, a salon worker, a joker in a circus - who are all in their own ways searching for happiness. The film is about these many journeys in quest for happiness in this complex world.
Director Bio : Suman Ghosh is a National Award winning Indian filmmaker. He has made 8 feature films and one documentary film. He had his film training at Cornell University in New York. His first feature film "Footsteps", starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Nandita Das won 2 National Awards in 2008. His second feature film "Dwando", also starring Soumitra Chatterjee, was a part of the Indian Panorama at IFFI Goa in 2009. His next feature film "Nobel Thief", starring the Indian megastar Mithun Chakraborty was world premiered at the Busan IFF and was an official selection at the BFI, London Film Festival. The film received the "Best Indian Film" award at the Bengaluru International Film Festival in 2012. His feature film "Kadambari" based on the life of Rabindranath Tagore and his controversial relationship with his sister-in-law Kadambari Dev was screened at several film festivals worldwide His latest film “Aadhaar” which World premiered at the Busan IFF in 2019 is awaiting all India release later this year.
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