Taan is a women centric film centered on the water prostitutes or Jal Baishya who live in the remote areas of underbans and are abducted and exploited by traffickers living along those ...
Acting
Rituparna Sengupta's controlled fire anchors every scene.
Direction
Chowdhury refuses to aestheticize suffering—uncomfortably necessary.
Production
Sundarbans location becomes a character itself.
Director
Mukul Roy Chowdhury
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Jal Baishya are a documented but rarely depicted community—estimates suggest thousands of women in Bangladesh and India's border regions live this life.
Rituparna Sengupta reportedly spent weeks in Sundarbans villages researching, a rarity for mainstream Bengali cinema leads.
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