Indrasis Acharya’s film Niharika to be screened at 31st Varna International Film Festival in Bulgaria

Indrasis Acharya’s film Niharika has been invited to Bulgaria by the Festival & Congress Centre for the 31st Varna International Film Festival (Love is Folly) under Best of Asian Panorama 2022-23 category.

The film is a saga of a woman who finally empowered herself after passing through a dark and abusive childhood, while searching for her gender identity through her voyage to adulthood. The film also talks about how she embraced a house in a no man's land, finally getting a reliable shelter on the earth. It's a story about a different melancholic life far from a paced city life.

“The intention was to make this story of women empowerment under an atmospheric environment, expressing pain of gender identity crisis and not being accepted as per their own choice. It's a story of believing in love without any inhibitions and boundaries of a modern woman, with the help of natural beauty around her and the house she lives in," said the director.

He added, "We intend to showcase a different character of love that becomes stoic in terms of living a new life — with the house and the place that’s so completely different from the modern world. That is the main focal point of the film with very pertinent questions on womanhood and their crisis of identity in the present human context.”
The film stars Shilajit Mazumdar, Anuradha Mukherjee, Anindya Sengupta, Mallika Mazumdar and others.




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