Tillotama Shome’s Baksho Bondi to compete at Berlin International Film Festival
Tillotama Shome’s film Baksho Bondi (Shadowbox) is set to compete at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. The film will also premiere at the prestigious event.
Actor Tilottama Shome’s film Baksho Bondi (Shadowbox) It is set to make its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Directed by Tanushree Das and Soumyanand Sahi, the film is set in a quiet suburb of Kolkata and tells the story of love, resilience and the indomitable strength of Maya, played by Shome.
Additionally, the film has also been selected to compete in Perspectives, a new category celebrating exceptional debut fiction features from around the world.
Vikramaditya Motwane, who is one of the producers of the film, shared a long note on Instagram and expressed his happiness on the same. He mentioned how the film was in production for eight years and now the team can’t wait for the world to see their labor of love.
“Couldn’t be more thrilled to share that our labor of love ‘Shadowbox’ (‘Bakshow Bondi’) directed by Tanushree Das @tanushree_skreenfilms and Soumyanand Sahi @somosahi has been selected in the New Perspectives Competition at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Festival. Set against the backdrop of a dusty Kolkata suburb, Shadowbox is a powerful story of love, resilience and quiet strength of a working woman – Maya. The film, featuring Tilottama Shome @tilottamashome, Chandan Bisht @chandanbisht and Sayan Karmakar, has been in the making for eight years. We can’t wait for the film to find its audience,” he wrote.
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Apart from Shome, the film has a stellar cast, including Chandan Bisht as Sundar, Sayan Karmakar as Debu and Suman Saha as Ripon.
According to the synopsis shared by Berlinale, Baksho Bondi revolves around Maya (Tilotama Shome), who discovers that her husband – a former soldier who suffers from PTSD – is the prime suspect in a murder investigation. She and her teenage son are forced to go to extremes to keep the family together.
The film is bankrolled by Naren Chandavarkar (Moonweave Films), Shaunak Sen and Aman Mann (Kitterbit Films), and Soumyanand Sahi, with Jim Sarbh (Wonderful Entertainment), Vikramaditya Motwane (Andolan Films), and Nikkhil Advani (Sumitra Gupta) Are included. Foundation for the Arts).
