Movie Drama
This is a story of isolation and hope, of a writer in exile. The writer is banished for her attack on religious fundamentalism and patriarchy and her cat is suddenly left alone.
Churni Ganguly Lia Boysen Saswata Chatterjee Martin Wallström Raima Sen Lennart B. Sandelin Eric Krogh Yohanna Idha Ardhendu Banerjee Gautam Bhattacharya Shruti Das Kaushik Ganguly Naomi Bethke Rajat Ganguly Biplab Chatterjee Bharat Kaul Lars Bethke Joakim Granberg Christoffer L. Jonsson Vikram Essas baaghini Arindol Bagchi Chitravanu Basu Dipanjan Basu Kishore Bhimani Sanjay Biswas Arun Mukherjee
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