Tillotama Shome‘s Bengali-language drama “Baksho Bondi – Shadowbox” will open the 16th Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) on Aug. 14, marking the film’s Australian premiere following its world bow at the Berlin Film Festival in the Perspectives strand.
The intimate character study, co-directed by first-time helmers Tanushree Das and Saumyananda Sahi, stars Shome (“Sir,” “Death in the Gunj”) as Maya, a woman working multiple jobs – from house cleaning to chicken farming to laundry pressing – while caring for her PTSD-affected husband Sundar (Chandan Bisht) and their teenage son Debu (newcomer Sayan Karmakar). When Sundar becomes implicated in a murder investigation, Maya must navigate both societal prejudices and
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