(Onir and Mithoon)
AFIA is a short film about the Sperm donation Mafia and the struggle for a single woman to have a child.
Cast: Nandita Das as Afia Sengupta, Manav Kaul as Manav Tiwari, Purab Kohli as Suraj Sharma and Anurag Basu as Dr Subrata Basu.
Director: Onir
Producer: Onir and Sanjay Suri
Music: Mithoon
The desire to have a child is normal, even mandatory but when a single woman wants a child, debates rage; the very social fabric is threatened.
Afia's story is of one such woman who wants to experience motherhood. Afraid of the ticking clock and unable to trust or even wait for a man; Afia decides to find that perfect donor who can give her the perfect child. Her search to have that child takes her through the underbelly of desire- desperation.
Along the way, what is deeply intimate and personal is questioned and challenged; borders between personal freedom and confirming with the stereotype are blurred. Nothing seems human any more under the high tech electronic microscopes. - Synopsis from the official facebook page
Onir is a critically acclaimed director, and has delivered thoughtful movies, including My Brother Nikhil (2005), Bas Ek Pal (2006) and Sorry Bhai (2008).
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