IN SEARCH OF WOMAN IDENTITY!

Graceful Mrinal Kulkarni in Marathi film 'Welcome Home'!

'Aayam's 10th Women's Film Festival recently over at NFAI in Pune. This time it's theme was 'Through the Lens of a Woman Director'! In this some films tried to search the woman identity in male dominating society!

In festival Bhave-Sukthankar's Marathi film 'Welcome Home' showed the picture of struggling woman for her right to live with dignity! It's wide screenplay covered various women in different generations & situations through glimpses of characters. In this central character..well educated lady portrayed by graceful actress (& director) Mrinal Kulkarni! What happen when married woman has to leave her husband's home because of the family dispute, how she face her own people, tackle the situation and take the responsibilities..in all such happenings & emotions she performed very sensibly. Especially she expressed trauma of divorce through her eyes sensitively without words!..That touched the heart!

Disha Thakur, Arita Sarkar & Vartika Tiwari in Hindi movie 'Teen Muhurat'!

Deyali Mukherjee's Hindi movie 'Teen Muhurat' was an episodic focus on independent women. It showed the confused situations of girls who want to live their life freely. That's why one girl in it scare about marriage and another girl stay away from male domination! Pretty Vartika Tiwari played her role nicely in it!

Bangladesh's Tasmiah Afrin's 'Statement After Poet Husband's Death'!

There were few short films depicted woman thinking independently! In this Bangladesh's Tasmiah Afrin Mou's 'Statement After Poet Husband's Death' presented the picture of woman who loved her husband passionately but after his death she realise that he died to her long before!

Strength to Women Empowerment!!

- Manoj Kulkarni