Puratawn: The Ancient Movie Screening

Synopsis:

Rittika returns to her ancestral house with her husband Rajeev to celebrate her mother’s 80th birthday. After reaching her house she finds that her mother is not the same as she had always believed her to be. Initially jolted with this realization, she slowly comes to terms with her condition and its irreversibility. Through her mother she comes to change her perspective on life and being. What seemed like an ostensibly routine and ritualistic event turns to a larger metaphysical enquiry into human existence and how the past dictates our current state. The film deftly braids in questions of failing memory, cherishing the past, a fear of obsolescence and reconciliation into a haunting, moving story that is at its heart about burying the ghosts of the past in order to make peace with what has happened so that one can move on.

Director : Suman Ghosh

Suman Ghosh is a National Award winning Indian filmmaker. He has made 12 feature films and two documentary films. His films have been to several prestigious film festivals all over the world, including Busan, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Karlovy Vary and others. He has worked with several iconic actors such as Soumitra Chatterjee, Mithun Chakraborty, Aparna Sen, Nandita Das, Konkona Sensharma and others in his films. His latest feature ‘The Ancient’ stars legendary Indian actress Sharmila Tagore in the lead role. It is releasing all over India on the 11th of April. He divides his time between Miami and Kolkata.

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