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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
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
The 65th Sydney Film Festival – 6-17 June 2018Smita finds herself fighting discrimination as she discovers a strange prerequisite to renting a house in Mumba...
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- Sydney Film Festival
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.
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- CATNIP
Counterfeit Kunkoo. Directed by Reema Sengupta • 2018 • India. Starring Kani Kusruti, Vijay Varma.
In a country where marital rape is not a legal crime, it took a lot for Smita to escape an abusive marriage. She lives in a one room apartment in Mumbai, earning her living by making imitation mangalsutras (necklace worn by married women).
