Irfana Majumdar’s “Shankar’s Fairies” is an intimate family enterprise in more ways than one. The film revolves around the tight nuclear family of a senior police officer an…
’s “Shankar’s Fairies” is an intimate family enterprise in more ways than one. The film revolves around the tight nuclear family of a senior police officer and their major domo in Lucknow, Northern India in 1962; it is based on the childhood memories of her mother Nita Kumar, who is the writer, producer and production designer on the film; and Majumdar’s husband Gaurav Saini serves as associate director and casting director and also plays the police officer.
“My grandmother passed away in January of 2016, and this house, which she lived in for about maybe 35 years, ever since my grandfather retired from the police, was going to be sold, it was a joint family house. And it was a house which was a part of my childhood,” Majumdar tells“My great grandfather built this house,” adds Majumdar. “And so because of that, we decided that we had to make a film in that house before it was sold, in order to preserve something about it.
“I just started being able to visualize everything very clearly – the feeling like I really knew what the story was supposed to be, how it should be told,” says Majumdar. Thus, Majumdar had plenty of experience with children going into “Shankar’s Fairies,” which is told through the eyes of a little girl . Majumdar herself plays the girl’s mother. Jaihind Kumar plays the titular Shankar, who is an indispensable part of the household and a man of many domestic talents. However, he yearns for his own family and his own, frequently unwell daughter, who live in a faraway village.
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