Priyanka Roy | | Published 23.02.21, 03:49 AM
A daughter who faced the loss of a mother at a young age, and a mother who has faced the unimaginable loss of a young son. she sees death in a wonderful new light”. That’s how film-maker Shonali Bose who has deeply impactful and empathetic films like
Amu,
Margarita with a Straw and
The Sky is Pink to her credit was introduced at a recent virtual session imaginatively titled ‘My Sky is Iridescent’, organised by the Ladies Study Group, Kolkata. Over an hour-long tete-a-tete with LSG president Diya Jaiswal, Shonali, who grew up in Calcutta, spoke about the thoughts that power her films and how she looks at death as celebrating someone’s life.