Just Imagine...
There are flowers but you cannot soak in their
fragrance, it is raining but your soul is not drenched, there is moonlight but
your heart is in darkness! This is the true story of a little girl chindhi, who
could not relish simple pleasures of life, but as Sindhu Mai, a mother, she
showers love on the homeless children in order to brighten their lives!
14th Feb,2009- Thousands of feet
above the ground, somewhere in the clouds, floats a woman firmly grounded in veracity!
The little child in her questions- what if the engine of the plane heats up? Through
the window, beyond the clouds, somewhere in Pimpri Meghe village she looks back
at a little girl, a girl she used to be! This is the journey of a little girl,
into the realms of womanhood culminating into a universal motherhood! It is a saga
of transformation of Chindhi, a simple village girl into Sindhu Mai, the mother
of the abandoned children!
When most children of her age go to school,
Chindhi shoulders the responsibility of grazing the cattle. Her dreams of
being educated are shattered when she is married off at the age of 12, only
to return home within a year, as a widow! Soon, she is married off to a middle-aged
man! The second husband is illiterate, ego issues arise that result into a
ban on chindhi’s reading- be it bits of newspaper or her nephew’s textbooks!
Few years later she is kicked out of her
husband’s house on the pretext of a false accusation, that she is having an
illicit affair & is pregnant out of the wedlock! In the world where a woman’s
honour rests at the feet of her husband, how will Chindhi survive, when her own
mother has turned a back on her? In her suicide attempt, she finds inspiration
to live; In the face of her misfortune she sees hope!
What will she do in order to provide for herself
& the new-born? She understands the pain of being homeless but how will she
ease the pain of other abandoned children? How can she be helpful when her own
situation is so helpless? What does destiny hold for her- or rather how does
she write her own destiny?
Based on “Me vanvasi”, by Sindhutai Sapkal, the
film is a divinely-hewed heart-wrenching
narration
on celluloid elaborated by extraordinary performances, power packed dialogues,
exceptional cinematography & amazing direction!
In a nutshell, WATCH IT! It deserves a STANDING
OVATION!
L(ov+uc)
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