Wheel Chair

1994 118’ col Bengali d/sc/m Tapan Sinha pc NFDC p Ravi Malik, Dr Debashish Majumdar lyr Rabindranath Tagore c Soumendu Roy lp Soumitra Chatterjee, Arjun Chakraborty, Laboni Sarkar, Manoj Mitra, Ruma Guha- Thakurta

A reformist social extending Sinha’s deployment of two key motifs in his work: the perils faced by women when venturing into social space and the redemption of institutions through dedicated individuals exercising middle-class professions. The plot concerns the cure of a young woman whose attempt to escape a gang of rapists, effectively filmed in ominous silence, has left her paralysed. She attends an experimental clinic run by a crippled doctor (Chatterjee) assisted by reformed youths and manages to overcome her traumatic experience.

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