Marking a striking success for Malayalam short film genre and for a debut director, Sangeeta Padmanabhan's short film, 'Charulatayude Baaki' (Charulata.. A Sequel of the Life Untold) has won two major international accolades.
The film has just won the jury's Special Mention Award at the 41st International Film Festival of India at Goa, where it competed at the Short Film Centre. It also won the Best Short Film Award at the prestigious Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York last month.
Sangeeta directed and scripted the 24-minute film, which is based on a Sahithya Academy Award winning short story by Priya A S, one of the contemporary leading writers in Malayalam fiction.
The film had also won Special Jury awards at the International Women's Film Festival Seoul and the International Short and Documentary Film Festival of Kerala this year. It was also screened at the International Short Film Festival Berlin in November.
"Charulatayude Baaki" 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 match making while she breaks up with her lover, an aspiring film maker who dreams of making a sequel to Satyajit Ray''s "Charulata".
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