
Edition: First Cut Lab India 2021
Chhaad The Terrace
India
Production company: National Film Development Corporation
World Premiere: International Film Festival of South Asia Toronto 2022
The Terrace is the absolute place in the life of a young schoolteacher Mitra, who sketches & writes with a passion. Mitra is offered to write for a prestigious local magazine for a special edition which is a dream come true for her. Her communication and relationships with the sky, birds, clouds and the neighbours comes to a halt when the common terrace is locked up by the occupants. This further blocks her mind to conclude her story. Life becomes unbearable when Mitra’s school closes for summer vacations and she is confined to the stuffy overbearing house with an uncompassionate husband.
The terrace is reflective of Mitra’s emotional reasoning and so when the terrace is taken away she suffers from existential crisis. The story writing process makes Mitra realize that her inability to rescue her own-self was a crisis deeper than her need for the open space of the terrace…
CREDITS
Director & Writer: Indrani Chakraborty
Editor: Amitava Dasgupta
Producer: Deepti Chawla
Cast: Paoli Dam, Rahul Banerjee, Keya Chakraborty