Short film, deep impact Cast: Moumita Ghosh, Ipsita Kundu The bond between a parent and a child is said to be sacrosanct, full of se...
Short film, deep impact
Cast: Moumita Ghosh, Ipsita Kundu
The bond between a parent and a child is said
to be sacrosanct, full of selfless love and sacrifice. The bond of blood with
her child built over the nine months in her womb makes a mother both the creator
and the nurturer of the new life she brings into this world. She is the first
teacher of her child be it in talking or taking the first step to walk. In this
process, her identity as an individual, as a woman, gets subsumed in the larger
context of her “motherhood” forcing her to adhere to societal norms of how a
mother should think and behave.
In Iirsha, director Abhishek Ganguli has turned
upside down this societal norm forced on people’s minds and instead shows a
mother as a woman who thinks nothing of belittling her own daughter Aditi
(Ipsita) when the latter shows her the diamond ring her boyfriend Arindam has
given her after proposing to her. The mother (Moumita) appears to react like an
overprotective mother who only thinks of the good of her child, but the end
reveals that her reaction was that of envy, of regret for not getting what her daughter
has so easily got.
Stuck in a bad marriage and possibly
harbouring resentful feelings for her daughter, the mother shows her true nature
as she sneaks into her sleeping daughter’s room and makes off with the diamond ring.
The daughter is horrified watching her mother dressed up as a bride living her
lifelong dream of landing a catch like her daughter and daring to covert her daughter’s
ring and make it her own, thus becoming an obstacle in her daughter’s path to happiness.
A simple story told so simply yet with so
many layers and depth by Ganguli with story and script by Moumita Ghosh, Kundu Irsha
has a runtime of less than 10 minutes and has impactful performances by both Moumita
and Ipsita.
A short film with a long and deep impact.
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