Sharmila Tagore Confronts Fading Memories in Mumbai Selection ‘The Ancient’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Indian cinema icon Sharmila Tagore embraces a challenging role in Suman Ghosh‘s “The Ancient” (Puratawn), which has its India premiere at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
The veteran actor portrays a woman grappling with memory loss in director Suman Ghosh’s Bengali-language drama. In “The Ancient,” Ritika (Rituparna Sengupta) and her husband Rajeev (Indraneil Sengupta) return to her ancestral home in West Bengal to celebrate her mother’s (Tagore) 80th birthday.
Upon arrival, Ritika discovers her mother’s cognitive decline, forcing her to confront a new reality. As Ritika grapples with this revelation, she embarks on a journey of acceptance, coming to terms with her mother’s irreversible condition.
Ghosh is a festival veteran with 2011’s “Nobel Thief,” 2012’s “Uncle Shyamal Turns off the Lights,” 2015’s “Peace Haven,” 2016’s “Mi Amor,” 2019’s “Aadhaar” and 2023’s “Scavenger of Dreams” all premiering at Busan and 2024 documentary “Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen” at Rotterdam.
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