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CHARULATA…A SEQUAL…OF THE LIFE UNTOLD!
(CHARULATAYUDE BAAKKI…OF THE LIFE UNTOLD !) Directed by SANGEETA PADMANABHAN USA & INDIA, 2009, 24 min. US Premiere. Malayalam (with English subtitles) Thursday, November 11 @ 9:00 PM @ SVA Silas Theatre  Synopsis: Charulata…A Sequal…of the Life Untold! is a visual narration set in the mindscape of a young, unmarried girl as she grooms herself for 'the marriage market'. Her parents get busy with the complexities of matchmaking while she breaks up with her lover, an aspiring filmmaker who dreams of making a sequel to Satyajit Ray's Charulata. Delving into deep contemplation, she shares her compromises - of giving up her simple, sensitive personal self to accommodate the suave, sophisticated social self that is imposed on her - positing herself many times into Charulata's predicaments of love, denial, and sacrifice. But even as she embraces her fate of imminent failure, in obedience to and in consolidation of the established order, her spirit refuses to give up, yearning for a resonant beat in another soul. Director Sangeeta Padmanabhan: Sangeeta Padmanabhan is a writer, editor, photographer, and director. She is a film and television professional with more than a decade of experience in mainstream media. A trained journalist and video editor, Sangeeta now guides the creative minds at Mustard Productionz. She also engages herself as a writer for The Hindu Newspaper covering cinema, entertainment and lifestyle. Recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship in 2005, Sangeeta was also selected for two of the European Union’s Documentary Initiatives – On Conflict Resolution and HIV/AIDS. Charulata…A Sequal…of the Life Untold! is her debut work.
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