Title of film : The Terrace
Director Name : Indrani
Cast & crew :
Producer : National Film Development Corporation Limited India
Editor : Amitava Dasgupta
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Synopsis : The Terrace is the absolute place in the life of a young school teacher Mitra, who sketches & writes with a passion. Mitra is offered to write for a prestigious local magazine for a special edition which is a dream come true for her. Her communication and relationships with the sky, birds, clouds and the neighbours comes to a halt when the common terrace is locked up by the occupants. This further blocks her mind to conclude her story. Life becomes unbearable when Mitra’s school closes for summer vacations and she is confined to the stuffy overbearing house with an uncompassionate husband. With the film ‘Chhaad’ the writer & debutante director Indrani Chakrabarty explores the protagonist’s relationship with the terrace and eventually her disillusionment attached to it. . The terrace is reflective of Mitra’s emotional reasoning and so when the terrace is taken away she suffers from an existential crisis.
Director Bio : A filmmaker based in Kolkata Indrani has independently made several documentary films and short fiction films that have visited several festivals in India and abroad. Indrani’s film ‘Ladaakh Chale Rickshawala’- A pan-Indian documentary on a rickshawala who travelled to Ladaakh from Kolkata on his tri-cycle rickshaw, won the National Award for the Best Adventure Film, 2017. ‘Ladaakh Chale Rickshawala’ was in the official selection of the Kolkata International Film Festival 2018 and also at the SIGNS 2018, Kerela. Ladaakh Chale Rickshawala is also in the competition section of the 15th KSFF,2019 organized by Chitrabani in collaboration with Nandan. It was screened at the Bengali – Kannada Film Festival, 2019, Bangalore, The Hyderabad Bengali Festival 2019, Indian Film Festival of Melbourne,
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