Sonsi

Country: India
Elsewhere: IMDb

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How it feels

The film centers on a woman navigating everyday life in a film industry with uneven gender dynamics. It draws on personal memories to explore unspoken constraints and small acts of defiance.

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What happens

Sonsi (transl. Shadow Bird) is an Indian short film produced by Sharib Khan and actor Vikas Kumar under the banner of Khan & Kumar Media Pvt. Ltd. and released in 2020. It stars actors Aarohi Radhakrishnan and Jameel Khan. The film won a National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography at the 67th National Film Awards and was awarded the "Best Short Film" title at the Lady Filmmakers Festival held in Beverly Hills. After winning the Best Film award at the Bengaluru International Short Film Festival, the film was also among the shortlisted entries for the Oscars in the Shorts section. The film is directed by Savita Singh and inspired by stories from her childhood, and the skewed gender roles in the film industry. The movie's name is derived from Vinod Kumar Shukla's Hindi literary work titled "Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rehti Thi" (A Window Lived in A Wall), which received the Sahitya Akademi Award for the best Hindi literature in 1999. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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