The twenty-first century is the age of the electronic image. From every corner of our world, electronic images fling themselves at us, entertaining, educating, enticing & offering us a virtual world.

Manjula Sharma is not a very successful Hindi short-story writer who suddenly becomes wealthy and internationally famous after writing a best-seller in English. The question haunting Manjula is, whether in opting for the global audience, has she betrayed her own language and identity? Now, without warning, it’s her own “image” that decides to play confessor, psychologist and inquisitor .

Broken Images premiered December 2009 in Mumbai, India.

Starring
Shabana Azmi

Written by
Girish Karnad

Directed by
Alyque Padamsee

Produced by
Raell Padamsee

Co-presented by B I T I Y A, in association with Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.

The mission at BITIYA is to provide educational opportunities and basic facilities for every underserved female child in order to facilitate a change in our society. At BITIYA, we believe that education is a tool by which we can plant the seeds of change and growth towards a more global perspective where opportunity is not exclusive.