Jury Films
Eyes on the Sunshine / Anur
Screening Schedule
Screening 1
- 15th December
- 8.15 pm
- Sree
Monjul Baruah
Director's bio
Monjul Baruah
Monjul Baruah’s venture into film-making world began as an assistant director of several national award-winning films. His first feature film as a director, ‘Antareen’ won three best feature film awards at the Indian Cine Film Festival held in Mumbai, and Prag Cine Awards held in Tezpur in the year 2015. The film also bagged the first Sailadhar Baruah Film Award in 2016. His second feature film ‘Kaaneen’ is on a high-profile lady’s search for her long abandoned child against the backdrop of contemporary society’s cynical hypocrisy. The third is the recently completed film, ‘Anur (Eyes on the Sunshine)’, based on a story by Sahitya Academy award winner Assamese writer Anuradha Sharma Pujaree about a sensitive widow torn between her real world and the world she longs to escape into. Besides the films he has also done several documentaries such as ‘Alone in the combat zone’, ‘Xenophobia’ among others. As a film-maker, the inter-personal relations in the changing paradigms of fragile socioeconomic circumstances remain as the fascinating subject of creativity for Monjul Baruah.
Synopsis
One morning a widow, who lives alone in the house that holds memories of her late husband, finds a gentleman sunning himself on her lawn. The trespass, which initially generated fear in her, ends up making a welcome intrusion into her claustrophobic loneliness, the loneliness which remained impermeable to the solicitous calls regularly made by her son living abroad, and to her other regular visitors. A maid comes regularly to do the household chores, a trusted young man is there who responds to.
Details of Cast
Jahanara Begum as Anupama Baruah Bidya Bharati as Niju Boloram Das as Om Jyoti Das Udayan Duarah Bibhuti Bhushan Hazarika as ACP Dipak Mahanta Rajat Kapoor as IAS Loshit Modliar Kula Kuldip as Hawker Rajashree Sharma
Details of Crew
Cinematography: Sumon Dowerah Editing: Twenchang Music: Tarali Sarma
Producer Details
Gopendra Mohan Das
Writer Details
Anuradha Sharma Pujaree
Stills
Categories
- International Competition (14)
- Homage (4)
- World Cinema (63)
- Country Focus (7)
- Indian Cinema Now (7)
- Kaleidoscope (6)
- Malayalam Cinema Today (12)
- Restored Classics (7)
- Opening Film (1)
- Spirit of Cinema (1)
- Ann Hui: Chronicler of the Outliers (5)
- The Female Gaze (7)
- Signatures In Motion (3)
- Midnight Cinema (3)
- Festival Favourites (13)
- Viva el Cine: Latin American Films (5)
- Refracted Realities : The Existential Mindscapes of Hong Sang-soo (4)
- Chiaroscuro : Retrospective of Madhu Ambat (4)
- Celebrating Shabana Azmi (5)
- Centennial Tribute (3)
