Ghormua

(A Letter to Home)

17min  |  Assamese

Rahul comes back home to write a book on his experience of growing up in his ancestral village in Assam. His mother, being deeply connected to nature can sense messages and signs arising from nature. But, In contrast to the serenity and harmonious living; there lurks a violent societal past which re-surfaces in people's dreams.
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Synopsis

A young boy, Rahul, hopes to write a book on his experience of growing up in his ancestral village in Assam. His mother, being deeply connected to nature can sense messages and signs arising from nature.

Urmila, a pregnant lady, is driven by sensory experiences. But, In contrast to the serenity and harmonious living; there lurks a violent societal past which re-surfaces in people's dreams.

These peaceful and quiet lives intersect in a space where traumatic memories of death and loss in Assam’s thirty years of secessionist movement keep resurfacing.

Credits

director: Mukul Haloi

cast: Kalpana Phukan, Rahul Rabha, Nilim Chetia, Urmila Mahanta, Akhil Gogoi, Ishana Bhardwaj

Story: Mukul Haloi

Screenplay: Mukul Haloi

Editor: Mukul Haloi, Avneesh Chhabra

Cinematography: Sandeep Yadav

Production Design: Prashant Deshmane

Sound Recording, Re-Recording, Sound Design And Mixing: Niladri Shekhar Roy