‘The Good Wife’, when an oppressed housewife embarks on a new journey

After his experimental film ‘Chitra’, a modern-day adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s one-act play Chitrangada, received appreciation from all corners, talented filmmaker and theatre director Prataya Saha is currently promoting his new venture ‘The Good Wife’. The short film has already earned him his maiden international laurels.
While Tagore’s Chitrangada follows a Manipuri warrior princess, ‘The Good Wife’ stars Anshulika, a veteran theatre personality, in the lead.
The 17-minute short has been extensively shot in Santiniketan and Maniktala in Kolkata, and till now has bagged many awards like the Best Suspense Thriller award at Alternative Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, and Best film Audience Choice award at Chicago Southland International Film Festival, Chicago, the USA, among many others. Also, at Vipra International Film Festival in Kochi, the film won four awards.
The story is about a housewife and what happens in an entire day. It’s also a thriller presented in a dramatised manner with undertones of patriarchy. Set in 1992, The Good Wife revolves around the highs, lows, joys, defeat and triumphs of a simple housewife in the course of a single day. It’s the story in the day of a woman meandering in the streets of a curfew-hit city to get her husband’s favourite food on the occasion of her marriage anniversary which he may or may not remember.
Next, Prataya will be making a film on the water crisis from the perspective of a child.