Tillotama Shome’s Baksho Bondi to compete at Berlin International Film Festival
Actor Tillotama Shome’s film Baksho Bondi (Shadowbox) is set to make its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Directed by Tanushree Das and Saumyananda Sahi, the movie is set in a quiet suburb of Kolkata and narrates the story of love, resilience, and the unyielding 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 lengthy note on Instagram and expressed his happiness over the same. He mentioned how the film had been in the making for eight years and now the team cannot wait for the world to see their labour of love.
“Couldn’t be more thrilled to share that our labour of love ‘Shadowbox’ (‘Baksho Bondi’), directed by Tanushree Das @tanushree_skreenfilms and Saumyananda Sahi @somosahi, has been selected in the new Perspectives Competition at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Set against the backdrop of a dusty Kolkata suburb, Shadowbox is a powerful narrative of love, resilience, and the quiet strength of a working woman – Maya. Featuring Tillotama Shome @tillotamashome, Chandan Bisht @chandanbissht and Sayan Karmakar, the film has been in the making for eight years. We can’t wait for the film to find its audience (sic),” he wrote.
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Apart from Shome, the film features a stellar ensemble 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 (Tillotama Shome), who “discovers that her husband — an ex-soldier who is suffering 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 (Kiterabbit Films), and Saumyananda Sahi, with executive producers including Jim Sarbh (Wonderful Entertainment), Vikramaditya Motwane (Andolan Films), and Nikkhil Advani (Sumitra Gupta Foundation for the Arts).
