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Holy Rights
National award-winning director Farha Khatun’s latest film is travelling to places and winning accolades. Holy Rights, the 53-minutes long film that deals with the topic of Triple Talaq have already premiered at the 54th HOF International Film Festival, Germany, the 15th Jogja Netpac Asian Film Festival, Indonesia and Dharamshala International Film Festival 2020, among others, will be screened at Kolkata International Film Festival in January and IFFI, Goa. The film has won the Best Director Award at 7th Art Independent International Film Festival and it has also received the prestigious National Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity 2020. The 33-year-old filmmaker takes us through the making of the film and working on her next film on bhistis or water carriers in Kolkata. Excerpts:
Kunal Bhange in Kosa (2020) | Whispering Walls
On a day like any other, 17-year-old Kosa Muchaki leaves his home to sell one of his goats. But he doesn’t return. He has been picked up by a police unit on suspicion of being a fugitive. It’s actually a simple case of a mistaken identity: the police are looking for another Kosa Muchaki, aged 30.
But since we are in the Bastar region in Chhattisgarh, deemed to be a hotbed of Maoists, and the other Kosa Muchaki is a wanted Maoist commander, the school-going teenager enters a Kafkaesque nightmare, one with seemingly no end in sight.