‘I Reborn’ wins ‘Best Director-Jury’ award at Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival

After winning a prestigious Remi Award at the 52nd Houston International Film Festival last week, Manoj Michigan’s silent short film ‘

I Reborn

’ has bagged another award. This time it’s the Best Director –Jury award at the 9th

Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival

. Surely, it’s high time for the ‘

Tritiya Adhyay

’ director.

It’s a 20-minute silent shortie exploring the cycle of life with a touching story of a young Dom. The word 'Reborn' in the title is 'metaphorical'. While Debopriyo Mukherjee plays the young son Haridas Chattopadhyay essays the father’s role in ‘I Reborn’ which has been shot in Tajpur.

“I Reborn is like an awakening, the rising, death and the re-awakening of the universal cycle we all travel on. This film opens a window to the unexplored world of a Dom undertaker who lives with his aged almost paralyzed father in the backwaters of the Bay of Bengal,” said Manoj Michigan about the concept of the silent short film.