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Synopsis:

This is a story about young girls after they are rescued from trafficking. A story of hope, about their strength, resilience, and continuous fight against injustice as they deal with trauma, discrimination, stigmatization, threats, re-victimization. An amazing association of twenty  girls called ‘’Utthan’’ which means uplifted in Bengali, who are now helping almost  two hundred survivors, regenerate themselves, through      outreach programmes, with the help of various social workers and Sanjog, led by Uma Chatterjee, a dynamic NGO based in Kolkata, working on human rights and gender equity ,combating violence against women and children. This story, traces the journey of some of these Survivor leaders, who were trafficked from spaces of trust and exploited by force, who managed to escape and are now fighting for not just their own rights, but are part of a movement, becoming self sufficient and ultimately becoming part of the policy and law making   system of the country. Added to their story is a quirky Van Gogh element of inspiration.
 

Modhurima Sinha is a film maker from Kolkata, India. Her first film is a short-‘’ The Third eye’’ which participated in several film festivals across the world and won several awards. Her second is a feature ’’Talking of Michelangelo’’ based on TS Eliot’s poem – The lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock. The film premiered in the Kolkata International film festival in 2017, and opened the Reaktor Film Festival in Vienna. The Colour Yellow is her third film, this time a docu drama, inspired by trafficked survivors who have turned into change-making leaders. All her three films are on women empowerment and highlight issues faced by women across various strata of society. She has been on the Netpac jury for the Kolkata International Film Festival in 2023. Her book on the Bengal master painters (Call of the Real) published by Mapin was launched across the world in 2003-4. She works closely with activist Ruchira Gupta, Landscape photographer Laura Mcphee and Film Maker Aparna Sen. Her background encompasses journalism, advertising, art and a day job as head of Marcom in the hotel industry.