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CATNIP. 40 awards, 120 film festivals, World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival. Grand Jury Prize (Pangaea Award) :: Wandering Reel Traveling Film Festival 2018 (USA) Best of Festival :: Hudson NY Shorts Festival 2018 (New York, USA)
- 15 min
- CATNIP
Jan 18, 2018 · Counterfeit Kunkoo: Directed by Reema Sengupta. With Kani Kusruti, Vijay Varma. In a city overflowing with buildings and slums, Smita must find herself a house to rent.
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- Short, Drama
- Reema Sengupta
- 2018-01-18
May 19, 2021 · In Counterfeit Kunkoo, writer/director Reema Sengupta mines this familiar type of drama to potent effect, eliciting audience outrage through a story of housing discrimination in Mumbai and the patriarchal propriety which undergirds it.
Written, directed and edited by international award-winning filmmaker Reema Sengupta, the film is an intimate perspective on the identity of the 'Ideal Indian Female' in urban India. It talks about housing discrimination, marital rape and the hope for liberation - both sexual and societal.
- 53 sec
- CATNIP
Jan 18, 2018 · Overview. In a city overflowing with buildings and slums, Smita must find herself a house to rent. She is hard-working, honest and respectful - the ideal tenant - except for one glaring flaw. She is a middle-class Indian woman without a husband. An intimate perspective on the identity of the 'Ideal Indian Female' in urban India of today.
Dec 29, 2017 · It's bold, brazen and unapologetic Counterfeit Kunkoo is unpretentious and realistic to its core. The film is about a separated single woman looking for accommodation in Mumbai and minces no words (or visuals) in underlining the desperation of her situation.
Oct 16, 2020 · Reema Sengupta's short film Counterfeit Kunkoo, which premiered at the Shorts Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2018, making it the first Indian feature to do so in 15 years(!), tells the story of Smita (Kani Kusruti) and her search for a flat in Mumbai while having to defend her non-married status to the housing agents and ...
