Remembering To Forget

Purva Naresh / A Room of Our Own / India / Hindi and English / 11 minutes / 2024

7th March 2025 | 11:00 AM | Conference Hall

 A woman opens trunks preserving sarees of her grand mother and her mother to air them -and this triggers a series of recollections of her own journey as a woman . Through her journey we see the journey of three women and how cinema and FTII played a part in the stories of all of them.

Director’s Bio: Purva Naresh is a  play wright and a theatre maker living in Mumbai. She has the Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar , Safdar Hashmi Puraskar [UP Govt], and Ladli Media Award to name a few for her work in theatre. She is also a classical dancer and an award winning percussionist. Purva has worked in Bollywood and OTT industry as  screenplay ,  dialogue writer and has produced a few award winning shorts. Purva has been invited by Royal Court London, Bake House Sydney, Curve Theatre Leicester for staged readings and play writing collaborations. She continues to seek telling stories through various formats.