Wheels

39min  |  Bengali  |  Drama, Tragedy, Women

Dia, an Indian classical dancer, has met with an accident that has confined her to a wheelchair. She returns home from the hospital, hoping to find some traces of her foregone life. However, fate has something else in store. The film deals with the emotional upheaval a person goes through when she loses the limbs which were synonymous with her very identity.
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Synopsis

Dia, an Indian classical dancer, has met with an accident that has confined her to a wheelchair. She returns home from the hospital, hoping to find some traces of her foregone life. However, fate has something else in store. The film deals with the emotional upheaval a person goes through when she loses the limbs which were synonymous with her very identity.

Filmmaker Bio

SAMMAN ROY

SAMMAN ROY

Writer, Director, Editor, Producer

Samman Roy is an independent filmmaker based in Kolkata, India. He started his filmmaking career with TVF, after leaving a well-paying job at a multinational IT company. Later he started making his own short films under independent banners in 2017. He has completed his Masters in Arts in Film Studies from Jadavpur University and is currently a trainer of Media Sciences at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology. Samman has almost 30 directorial projects in his bio, including 7 short films (AASTHA(2018), BEFORE THE RAINS(2019), MAIL(2020) to name a few), over a dozen music videos, corporate films and 3 features (2 of which are in post-production). Apart from filmmaking, he is an avid singer, a writer and also runs a Youtube channel on film analysis.

Credits

director: Samman Roy

writer: Samman Roy

producer: Samman Roy, Subho Saha

cast: Aritraa Sengupta, Soumya Majumdar, Ratna Dhar