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Surmayee
Shaam
(Approx
Duration: 130 minutes)
Without
memory, we are nothing…
--
Louis Bunuel
Surmayee
Shaam
tells the story of a talented and successful but broken
family, which comes together at a time when family crisis is
at its worst. At the center of this is a larger-than-life
character of Srikant Joshi, who is struck with Alzheimer's
Disease and has started losing memory.
The
way two completely different personality types, the father-son
duo, come around is remarkable in its poignancy. Equally
touching is the unstated bond between the father-in-law and
the daughter-in-law, both of whom have been terribly lonely in
the family.
All
his life, amidst a remarkable professional achievement, Joshi
has always played around with myth and reality, fact and
fiction. With the onset and progress of Alzheimer's, these
elements acquire ironic dimensions. When Srikant Joshi is
awarded the highest civilian award in the country, the Padma
Bibhushan, a great story teller all his life, he is barely
able to speak or even understand the honor bestowed upon him.
The entire family, however, rises to the occasion, helping him
carry off the show with dignity and honor.
Towards
the end, his son (who has resisted his father's grand romantic
vision all his life), takes on even the task of weaving tales
and completing his father's story, the last part of which he
has never told to anyone.
Seedha
Raasta Tedhi Chaal
(Approx
Duration: 130 minutes)
In
this dark sex-comedy, set in an old-fashioned spa town, six
characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty
nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a
rich industrialist; a popular ghazal singer and his beautiful
but obsessively jealous wife.
Seedha
Rasta Tedhi Chaal is set in the genre of a landmark Indian
comedy, Jane Bhi Do Yaro and poses the most serious questions
of contemporary consumeristic world with a blasphemous
lightness. The result is a whirlwind ride of fantastic but
connected events, through a midsummer's night in which two
tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years,
interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the
ridiculous.
Chaak
Chale Chaak
(Approx
Duration: 150 minutes)
A
family saga of a quasi-royal family from the beginning of the
20th century till the current times, Chaak Chale Chaak
attempts to explore the nation's (India) history through three
love stories spread over three generations --- all of which
are inescapably connected with a flower tree in the family
campus.
In
the process, the film aims to examine the complex ethical and
moral issues involved with power, love and lust --- the way it
has changed through the past decades.
Ek Aur
Bachpan (A
Different Childhood)
(Approx
Duration: 120 minutes)
Slotted
for production under filmmaker Praksh Jha's banner, Ek Aur
Bachpan (A Different Childhood) takes up the story of a nine
year old girl, Chanda, in search of her younger brother,
against the insidious backdrop of bonded child labor, in which
they both are viciously trapped.
In
the process, Chanda encounters a series of insurmountable
odds, which she must tackle to find out and rescue her seven
year old brother. The film aims to explore some of the
compelling situations that perpetuate this pervasive and
exploitative practice and generate outrage (as well as
possible solutions) to deal with this malignant social
reality. | 
