Chhayapath
Chhayapath
Sunandita comes to a renowned university of Delhi with her eyes filled with the vision of her shining prospect.
She stays as a guest roommate with her caring senior Madhuri before she is allotted her own room. To her surprise, everybody including the hostel warden discourages her to take the room she is been given. Madhuri informs her that the three girls who stays in the room before her Chandrakala Singh from Manipur, Shopian Nilofer from Kashmir, and Savitri from Bihar- did one same thing.
All of them left the university without finishing her studies and nobody knows where they went. The mystery of the room seems so intriguing to Sunandita that she decides to take the room in spite of all advices.
Initially nothing occurs though a sensation of something makes her aware of the uniqueness of the room.
As she starts getting more engrossed understanding the mystery of the room. Sunandita gradually dissociates herself from her friends' circle.
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Cast & Credits
| Cast: Bindiya Ghosh, Susmita Pan, Ashit Banerjee, Dibyodoot Roychoudhury, Poulomi Kundu, Anupam Dhar, Torsa Chakraborty, Shekhar Das, Vaswati Chakraborty, Dipali ADAK, Jhulan Bhattacharjee, Mamata Bandyopadhyay, Asis Bhowmik, Debasis Chatterjee, Jayoti Basuroy, Mamoni Dasgupta, Jagannath Chakraborty, Nirmal Mondal, Apurba Saha, Sajal Kanti Bagchi, Debalina Giri, Aninda Ganguly and Jayanta Mitra. |
| Playwright: Tirthankar Chanda |
| Direction: Sima Mukherjee |
| Assistent Direction: Jayanta Mitra |
| Set and choreography: Somnath Dutta |
| Set Making: Raj Drama Set Supplies/td> |
| Light Design: Badal Das |
| Music Compose: Tarit Bhattacharjee |
| Music operation: Sanjay Das |
| Off Voice: Debasish Chatterjee, Sujoy Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta Mitra, Anupam Dhar, Srija Chakraborty, Aditi Dasgupta, Mamata Bandyopadhyay, Sima Mukherjee, Savitri Haisnam |
| Screen Acting: Kuntal Chattopadhyay, Sougato Manna , Bapan Samanta , Miraj sardar , Sudip Das , Subhasiah Khamaru |
| Special Acknowledgement: Deepti Mehrotra, Mahasweta Devi, Prithvis Saha, Kabita Joshi, lrom Ambishaki, lrom Singhijeet, Bablu Loitangbam, Heisnam Kanhailal and lrom Sarmila Chanu. |
| Photography: Pashupati Rudrapal |
| Design by: Siddharth Gupta |
| Production Manager: Subhasiah Mukhopadhyay |
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...and then one night she can see faces manifesting from the walls of the room telling story of a lion-hearted girls of a State - Sharmila Chanu. Suddenly Sunandita realizes that her dream of a better life, a successful carrier had stopped her from knowing the larger situation of her people, her country. The conception of her own motherland acquires a new tint thought those faces of the walls. She starts knowing her nation, her very own position. This drives her to go the hospital where Sharmila is fasting for Last fourteen years. She meets Savitri Joshi who devoted the entire career or white columns and makes films about the brave mothers and their fearless offspring of Manipur. Sunandita meets Sharmila’s brother and the niece of an indomitable spirit. At true sense of education penetrate Sunandita’s conscience against which all the promises of a good life. Brilliant career seems futile. She finds a new meaning of her life and leaves her studies for something more meaningful a degree.
The room, however, does not remain vacant. In due course, another girl is allotted that room and she crosses the threshold to find out stories, hidden in the midst of those four walls.
Director’s Note
He has not eaten for fourteen years. He does not touch his lips, rubs his teeth with a cotton swab, in case his tongue gets wet- this is surprising, but it is true. It is early November of the year 2000. Ten innocent civilians are shot dead while waiting at the Malom bus stand near Imphal. Killed by the security forces. In protest of this incident, Irom Sharmila Chanu started the longest hunger strike in the history of the world by using her own body as a tool. Her only demand is to remove the black law called AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Power Act) from Manipur. This law has been in force in Manipur since 1958 in the name of peace and order. This force has given ultimate power to the police-military. So, 14-year-old Sanamacha Singh, Yaima Singh suddenly disappeared in the dark, Mohammad Taib Ali was taken by the military for questioning and never returned home. Monorama was brutally raped. Sanjeev's chest ribs were riddled with bullets in broad daylight. The government and the core of the Indian state are still apathetic with zero accountability. Rangroop's new production "Chhayapath" drama is about these words.