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Film India Worldwide
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Multiplex - Screen 4
29/11/2006 @ 06:30:00 P.M |
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Little Box of Sweets - International Premiere
Language: English
Program: Film India Worldwide
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Director: Meneka Das
Length: 2006, Digi Beta, Colour, 88 mins
Producer: Sheenu Das
Co-Producers: Vijay Das
Script: Meneka Das
Cinematographer: Duson Todorovic
Music: Andrew T. Mackay
Editor: Huw Jenkins & David Charap
Cast: Joe Anderson, Meneka Das, Sheenu Das, Helena Michell, Rahul Vohra , Tilotama Shome,Raj Zutshi
Production Company: OceanSonic Pictures Ltd
Website: www.littleboxofsweets.com
Source: Princess Chula House,
City Road,
Truro, TR1 2JL,
Cornwall,
United Kingdom
Director Biography: Director/writer/ actor Meneka Das was born and raised in Allahabad. India, and moved to the UK to pursue her interest in music and theatre. She trained at The Lee Strasberg Institute and studied with American Emmy award winning screenwriter/playwright Jan Hartman, Dove-S Simens, Mark Travis (UCLA) and Mike Figgis. She has taken courses at the National Film and Television School, London. Her first feature film ‘Little box of Sweets’ come in the wake of her award-winning short, ‘The Audition.’ Meneka is currently working on writing two other feature film scripts. Her recent acting credits include key roles in Richard Curtis’s Emmy Award winner ‘Girl in the Café,’ the BBC Scotland serial ‘River City,’ the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight¹s Children’ and the lead in her own debut feature.
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Synopsis: Set in late 70s and early 80s , this film harks back to a recessed, verdant little village in North India. This village is Asha's world (Meneka Das not only directs but plays the lead role of Asha). Whatever Asha knows and wants is right here in her modest existence, with her grand parents and her soul-mate friend, Lalli (Sheenu Das). Then Seth (Joe Anderson) comes along, the handsome son of an Indian Commissioner and his wife, Sheila, the beautiful daughter of a British missionary. Asha and Seth’s common love for poetry draws them closer, awakening Asha to be more like him and strive for a better future. Seth returns to his medical schooling in England, leaving a bereft Asha caught between two different worlds. The unspoken relationship with her grandfather, a man of few words, stands as a constant reminder of life's failures. Driven by her zest of life and passion to survive, Ashe challenges the system, fighting to keep her dream of both love and life alive. The film is shot in and near the city of Allahabad, bringing to life a range of characters from different backgrounds and a small fading Anglo Indian community. The common thread of love, friendship, celebrations and tears underlines this debut work by a director recalling her own days of growing up and breaking free. The film has been shot in 16mm.
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Festival Participation: 12th Bite the Mango Film Festival, U.K.
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