This award winning film is the tale of 21-year old Kaju, who returns to India with a desire to connect with the ‘real India’. Here she meets Kabir, who pokes gentle fun at her American outlook. Undeterred Kaju visits the slums and roadside cafes where she is overcome by feelings of déjà-vu. Kabir gets drawn into a mystery as Kaju stumbles against secrets from her past and discovers that a horrifying genocide, where thousands of Sikhs were massacred holds the key to her own origins.

“Bose is a fearless filmmaker who certainly knows how to tell an engrossing tale without compromising her political viewpoint.” Hollywood Reporter, Berlinale 2005

Directed by Shonali Bose
102 mins, English/Hindi with subtitles, Cert. 18

This screening is in conjunction with Tongues on Fire film festival.