ADLS Sunshine School principal Indrani Singh has come up with a short film ‘Why Me?’ Writer-director Singh said that it took two years of corrections and mental visualisation to translate her concept onto celluloid. The short film was screened at SNTI auditorium on Friday evening.
The film depicts the evils of domestic violence and its severe consequences on the future generation. The narrative of the film features how traumatic and undesirable circumstances strengthen the spirit to fight against all odds and ensure everlasting happiness and prosperity in our lives. The script traces the journey of a young woman who despite being a victim of domestic violence battles with her life and emerges victorious.
She said that her experience in observing children in various stages of withdrawal symptoms made her ponder deeply on the causes and consequences of such mentally suffering children. “It is the attitude of the elders, specifically the parents that need changing. The prenatal trauma undergone by mothers has a negative impact on the child still in the womb. This happens usually due to domestic violence and the causes of such social sickness are many. You can counsel grownups but not four year olds. I have tried to drive this point into society with this humble effort of mine (Why Me?),” Indrani stated.
Tathagata Bhattacherjee, the chief of Take5 Communications of Kolkata who provided the technical support with his team while he himself was the technical director of ‘Why Me?’ is himself a filmmaker of wide repute in all genres of this format. He said that he was thrilled to hear the story and took it upon himself as a challenge to carry across the message to people about the darker shade of life affected by domestic violence. He said, “The subject needed very delicate technical handling. I tried to keep the film short and smart in accordance with director Indrani Singh’s visualization. I have great plans on the anvil. After the film is premiered in Kolkata, I will try to project this film on national and international short film forums. You may like this film or you may not like it. But you cannot ignore this film.”
Speaking on the occasion Vice President (safety, health, sustainability) Tata Steel Sanjiv Paul observed, “When Indrani Singh came to me to narrate the story, I listened to her narration but my attention was more drawn to her emotional aspect and the modulation in her way of narrative. I was highly impressed. But seeing the film, she has come across, not only to me, but to all the people present in the auditorium as a person with a mission to start reforming our attitude now.”