2018 | India | Documentary

Atasi

  • Bengali, English yes 52 mins
  • Director | Putul Mahmood
  • Writer | Not applicable
  • Producer | Ratnaboli Ray
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Atasi was declared mad by her family and admitted to a mental hospital. Once out of the mental hospital, she fell in love and ‘plotted’ her own recovery. She had a story to tell - not only a story of love in the time of madness but also that of a dysfunctional family in an odd little house in Kolkata.  Rather than objectify her as a victim, a mental health patient, I chose to let her voice burst through. She had a special intimacy with the camera and when she was filming with us it was as if she was exorcising the ghosts of her past.

 

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