Manoj Michigan’s silent
short film
‘I, Reborn’ bagged the Best Director award at the 6th
Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival
recently.
It’s like a poem in celluloid. The short film encapsulates the cycle of birth, love and death keeping the life of a young Dom on focus, who earns a living for himself and his ailing father by cremating dead bodies. ‘I, Reborn’ beautifully opens a window to the world of an undertaker/dom who lives in isolation with his aged father. The word 'Reborn' in the title is 'metaphorical'.
You can’t say the young man is a microcosm of the class he belongs as he stands on his own. His silence can speak a thousand words. Though it’s a
silent film
but the ambient sounds of wood being axed, crackling wood from the fire of burning pyre, the continuous waves of sea, and lastly the cries and gurgles of a child speaks for itself.
While
Debopriyo Mukherjee plays the young dom,
Haridas Chattopadhyay
essays his father’s role in the film which has been shot in Tajpur.
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