LIFE GOES ON
synopsis
Set in today's London, in a modern Indian-Bengali doctors family. Manju's sudden death, throws Sanjay into rediscovering his relationship and the lives of his daughters. Grappling with devastating loss, missing the mediating role of his wife, Sanjay faces new crisis with the modern lives of each daughter, specially with Dia the youngest declaring her love for a Muslim boy - Imtiaz. Sanjay recollects his childhood and the trauma of Hindu Muslim riots during partition of Bengal. Finally he gets to know that his elder daughter is not his own. He reconciles as he realises nothing is perfect.
original title: | Life Goes On |
country: | United Kingdom |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Sangeeta Datta |
release date: | UK 19/11/2010 |
screenplay: | Sangeeta Datta |
cast: | Sharmila Tagore, Girish Karnad, Om Puri, Soha Ali Khan, Rez Kempton, Neerja Naik, Christopher Hatherall, Mukulika Banerjee |
cinematography by: | Robert Shacklady |
film editing: | Arghakamal Mitra |
costumes designer: | Namratha Jani |
production: | Stormglass Productions Limited |
distributor: | Crabtree Films |