Hong Kong-based international boutique sales company Asian Shadows has acquired Locarno selection “Shankar’s Fairies” by Indian filmmaker Irfana Majumdar. The film will world prem…
Set in 1962, in a recently independent India, which is class-bound and exploitative, “Shankar’s Fairies” follows Shankar, a villager, who is the indispensable butler at the mansion of the parents of the little Anjana and her brother. Anjana loves his incredible stories and follows him around. Anjana’s mother handles the servants with a tough hand and her father is an authoritarian as well. Meanwhile, back in his village, Shankar’s daughter falls ill and he would like to go home..
The story of “Shankar’s Fairies” is a fictionalized version of Kumar’s childhood memories of growing up in an elite home with a close friendship and dependence on a domestic helper from a rural background. “The love for details of Irfana Majumdar, the strong and very natural interpretation of the cast, make ‘Shankar’s Fairies’ very contemporary and allow us to witness the first days of a new India where old tradition are still very much in place,” Ruggieri added. “She is without any doubt an important new voice into Indian cinema who brings into it her talent of actors’ directing and as a delicate and meticulous observer of her country’s reality.
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