After Cannes entry last year, director ready with next

Only last year, his film The Wife's Letter (Streer Potro) was screened at Festival de Cannes and there’s no stopping Aneek Chaudhuri. His movie also travelled to many other prestigious film festivals around the globe and among them is Hamilton Film Festival, British Council. Beside this, his latest documentary was a part of IFFI Goa 2017 named Urban Voice.And now, Aneek, who is fast emerging as a festival favourite, is ready with his silent feature film in Bengali. Titled white, it stars Kaushik Roy and Arjaa Banerjee.
A research scholar in films studies, Aneek’s film tells the stories of three women who survived rape and fought back to lead a stronger life. White conjoins three tales based on a similar theme; however, each woman has her own life and a way of leading it. The first tale is of a factory girl getting raped inside the work premises and her story of survival. The second story is about a single mother and her inability to face her own child after being subjected to torture. This is a story of the child’s upbringing in an orphanage and her return to her childhood home after two decades. The third and the last tale is of a raped married woman (in a village) and how her husband reacts to it. Here’s hoping White brings many more laurels for Bengal.