Bindu nair

After getting cancer, how do different people, including the film maker’s family, two young women at their end of life, a surgeon battling it alone, and two men who have lost their spouses to cancer, confront the pain, fears, anxieties, stresses of treatment, the strain on, and often rupture of close relationships that follows, to find strength, grace and transformation?

Was the only official entry from India for the Oscar awards at Los Angeles in the shorts section-in 2003 -it competed in the honorary foreign film category. The short film “Notes On Her” inspired by Mahashweta devi's 'DRAUPADI AND BASHAI TUDU'. - is about a journalist’s memory of a rebel called Dopdi who never seems to die. It’s an experimental film not following a strict narrative structure and is highly visual with a complimenting sound track which enhances the film’s dark atmosphere. The film was shot in black and white and printed on color to achieve the dark, high contrast, gritty images.