‘I, Reborn’ to compete at Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival

It seems there’s no stopping for Manoj Michigan. His short film ‘I Reborn’ has already won the Best Director –Jury award at the 9^th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival, Best Film - Jury award at the Bangalore Short Films festival along with the prestigious Remi Award at the Houston International Film Festival earlier this year while it continues to travel film festivals.
And now, it’s been selected in the competition section of Short films at the 6^thHyderabad Bengali Film Festival where it will be screened on July 18.
The word 'Reborn' in the title is 'metaphorical'. It’s a 20-minute silent short exploring the cycle of life with a touching story of a young Dom.
While Debopriyo Mukherjee plays the young dom, Haridas Chattopadhyay essays his father’s role in the film which has been shot in Tajpur.
Speaking about the film the director had earlier told us: “I Reborn is like a awakening, the rising, death and the re-awakening of the universal cycle we all travel on. The story opens a window to the unexplored world of a Dom or undertaker who lives with his aged almost paralyzed father in the backwaters of the Bay of Bengal.”