Toronto Regular Rima Das on Platform Selection ‘Tora’s Husband’: ‘Love Is Important for Me’
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Indian filmmaker Rima Das is back at the Toronto International Film Festival for the third time with “Tora’s Husband” this year, after “Village Rockstars” in 2017 and “Bulbul Can Sing” in 2018. “Tora’s Husband” follows a small-business owner and his family in the eastern Indian state of Assam, as the country emerges from COVID-19 lockdown. ” ‘Tora’s Husband’ tells the stories of common people whose lives and livelihood are directly or indirectly affected by the pandemic, yet they have to keep going,” Das told Variety. “My family wasn’t directly affected by the pandemic, but there was a constant sense of fear and restlessness.
I lost my father during these times, though not due to COVID, it is still difficult to come to terms with his loss.” Das is a renaissance woman of Indian cinema who writes, shoots, directs, edits and produces her own films.
Her previous two films were set in a village and “Tora’s Husband” moves two kilometers afield to a small town connected to several villages.
In all these films, the family unit is very strong. “Love is important for me. The family is the very first place where you can experience love.
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