In partnership with The Root Reel
Baandhon, by Jahnu Barua (110’)
‘We are common people. The world is too big for us. We have no choice but to trust in it.’
The multiple-National-Award-winning director Jahnu Barua’s Baandhon is an unhurried and minimalist film about an elderly couple leading a sheltered existence in a town in Assam. It’s a bare-bones story that is literally just this: a perennially-bickering old man and his wife are unexpectedly visited by the harsh realities of the outside world when their grandson Pona – an IIT Mumbai student who is the centre of their universe – goes missing on the night of 26/11.
~ Anna MM Vetticad
Followed by an interaction with the Film maker.