Widow of Silence
2018 film
Widow of Silence is an Indian drama film directed, written and produced by Praveen Morchhale who has been hailed by critics as an important filmmaker of the Indian new wave. The film stars Ajay Chourey, Shilpi Marwaha, Bilal Ahmad, and Noorjahan. It was released on 9 December 2018.
This film premiered at the 24th Kolkata International Film Festival on 12 November 2018 after debuting at the Busan International Film Festival in October 2018.
Plot
Aasia is a young trainee nurse staying in a Kashmiri village with a young daughter and an ailing mother-in-law. Her husband went missing seven years ago, and after numerous futile visits to the police station, she now wants to get on with her life. For this she desperately needs a death certificate from the local registrar, a corrupt government official who has no qualms about exploiting women who line up outside his office every day.
Rebuffed time and again, the registrar tries to force himself on Aasia while she is on night-duty at the hospital, and gets more than what he bargained for.
Set against the stunning autumn landscape of north Kashmir, the film casts many local non-professional actors who play their own role in real life. For instance, the poetic and cheerful taxi driver, Bilal, drives buses for a living.
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