Taangh / Longing
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The screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Bani Singh and editor Abhro Banerjee.
SYNOPSIS
Soon after Partition, newly independent India defeats England to win the hockey Gold at the 1948 London Olympic Games. Six decades later, Nandy Singh of this winning team suffers a stroke. His grit to recover inspires his daughter, the director of the film, to retrace his life. Interviews with team mates reveal lives shaped by the Gold and Partition. Also revealed is a friend in Pakistan, never spoken of before. Her search for him morphs into a quest for the lost ‘watan’(homeland). |
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Bani studied space design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and worked in the area of Museum studies later. She worked at the Virasat-e-Khalsa museum in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab as a gallery visualiser and content interpreter and was a senior faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. Taangh is her first film. |