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Awakash

Awakash

Original name:Awakash
English name: Awakash
Year: 2020
Run time: 78 Mins
Language: Marathi
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: India
Director: Chittaranjan Giri
Producer: Ashwini Giri
Cast: Ashwini Giri, Laxmi Birajdar, Nachiket Devasthali
Screenplay: Chittaranjan Giri
Cinematographer: Harsh Gupta
Editor: Aniket Kale
Sound Designer: Piyush Shah
Music Composer: Sarang Kulkarni
Costume Designer: Ashish Deshpande
Production Designer: Ashish Deshpande
Production Company: Chittaranjan Films
World Sales: Ashwini Giri
World Sales Phone: 9823162271
World Sales Email: chittaranjanfilmsind@gmail.com

Festivals:

  • New York Indian FF 2021
  • Indian FF of Melbourne 2021
  • Washington DC South Asian FF 2021
  • Gangneung FF 2021

Director’s Selected Filmography:

  • 2020 Awakash

Director’s Biography :

Chittaranjan Giri

Chittaranjan Giri, is an alumnus of a prestigious National School of Drama, India and has been working in the field of Theatre and Films for the past 25 years. He has directed various plays with many drama schools and theatre repertoire. His work has been rewarded with many awards for acting in many internationally acclaimed films. To name a few, Man Beyond The Bridge which won the FIPRESCI Prize in competition at Toronto IFF. Lathe Joshi, which has been selected for more than 12 international film festivals and have won awards for Best Film in PIFF, BIFF, DIFF, LIFFT, etc. He himself is a writer and had written few scripts for Feature Films. Awakash is his debut feature film as director.

Synopsis :

The events take place in a flat in the city of Pune, India. After nearly 10 years a turbulent marital life forces Sujata to return to her ancestral home. Beyond the doorstep, however, lies a cold and unresolved past which she shares with her sister-Swati- over the death of their father. Time crawls by, and Sujata and Swati find themselves thrown into a labyrinth of past memories and traditions which were passed onto them by their parents. Sujata struggles to come to terms with the change in her identity, the demise of their parents, and the life Swati has built for herself. At each turn, Sujata grapples with instances that force her to reconsider the values and society which had moulded her and Swati's upbringing and question their relevance in the present cultural landscape.