Not often you get to see a film is being made on the lives of housemaids and their daily struggles. Independent filmmaker
Joydeep Roy Choudhary
has done it in his recently released short film ‘My Dear Best Maid’. The lead character of the
housemaid
has been played skillfully by
Moumita Mitra
who has played a wide range of characters on TV serials and a few short films over the years.
Moumita slips into the life of a maid who questions her position in a nuclear family where she’s working and delves deep into her ambitions through some what-if scenarios.
The short film shows why we need a housemaid in a family how integral she becomes in our lives over the course of time. Without even knowing all those secrets buried in any family they make a family survive in the toughest times like a pandemic we have gone through in the last two years. And yet, they mostly remain neglected.
Sharing his thoughts on the film,
Joydeep
revealed that he wanted to introduce the house itself as a different character setting the mood and tone of the narrative. The mansion in the short film has been used as a backdrop for all the subplots. Since the film focuses mainly on narration, it was quite challenging because the actors were mentally adapting to the narration and bringing out the exact emotions.
He further adds that he wanted the maid’s character to become a part of the audience and understand the life of her mistress (played by Ashmita Baidya). That’s how the filmmaker has envisioned the letter (story) as a film, while the maid reflects on her existence but then looks back on how they came to be in a relationship that was unseen but full of purity and love and driven by purpose. Joydeep wants the audience to feel the emotional roller-coaster while watching the short.
The short film surely makes us think about those unpleasant questions involving housemaids that we often want not to answer. It’s winning hearts since the release on YouTube.
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