The Flight
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Santwana Bardoloi
Trisha Saikia
Tom Alter
Bishnu Kharghoria
Triveni Bora
Chetana Das
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Synopsis
Three young Brahmin women are living on the estate of a wealthy guru who heads a religious sect. The three are widows and, accordingly, were assigned a marginal existence in their in-laws households. None wanted to comply with this tradition and promptly left. Durga, noisy and neurotic, has fled her home after her husband's death. Her goal is to take his ashes to a sacred river. A second widow is bravely trying to take care of her dead husband's land and estates, but she is betrayed by one of the overseers. Giribala, the most rebellious, demands the right to decide where and how to live. When her growing intimacy with a foreign scholar, Mark, alarms her family, she chooses a spectacular suicide over a life of unhappiness.
Director
Santwana Bardoloi
Film Details
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Jury Award (Silver Peacock) at the 1998 India International Film Festival.
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (market) May 7-19, 1997.
Shown at India International Film Festival in New Delhi January 10-20, 1998.
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 22 - September 2, 1997.
color
dialogue Assamese
