DO PAHAR Screening and Q&A
Movies
0.5 hrs
April 28, 2013 7:30 pm Sunday
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A short film starring veteran and BAFTA award winning actress Rohini Hattangady, Do Pahar or Afternoon is about an unlikely bond that develops between an elderly, abused woman and a hit man when, curious by nature, she invites him into her house (a perfect place to keep vigil on his target). Yet, while he is a killer, he’s also sympathetic and while she is old and abused, she’s also stubborn and fearless.

As the afternoon progresses, she kindles in him a few forgotten childhood memories while the hit man by his very nature invites her to confess her darkest desires. Just this one afternoon alludes to a lifetime for the two as they break moral stereotypes. While she discovers her ‘knight in shining armor’ in the hit man, he in turn finds in the old woman, his ‘perfect partner in crime’.

Do Pahar recently won the Best Script Award at the Jaipur International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short, Best Screenplay and Best Actress at the Rolling Frames Short Film Festival in Bangalore and again nominated for Best Short at the New York Indian Film Festival. More information on our website: www.dopaharthefilm.com

Organizer
Sharifa Roy
The Link is Password Protected!!!! Password: VL2d373Rvh5y50okM977X6g02 Sharifa Roy is a Writer/Director at Mothers & Daughters Films, co founded with her daughter, Shazia. She started her career teaching English Literature in high school for seven years. But films always beckoned and her first opportunity came in the form of a TV play she wrote and directed for Doordarshan in 1989. She broke into the film industry as a Set Dresser under her husband and renowned Production Designer, Nitish Roy and worked on noted films like Shyam Benegal's Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda and Disney's The Jungle Book among many others. Through Set Dressing she discovered a flair for Costume Design and subsequently worked on music videos, commercials, Bengali features, Ek Poshla Bristi and Tobu Mone Rekho and prime time television serials like Shikast, Sea Hawks and Yeh Ishq Nahin Aasaan. Writing however was always her primary calling. In 1999, she co-wrote the popular TV series, Hip Hip Hurray with Vinay Pathak and Nupur Asthana. Do Pahar is her first independent short film as a Writer/Director.