NAME OF THE MOVIE: Taangh (Longing)
DIRECTED BY: Bani Singh
DURATION
89 mins
YEAR
2021
COUNTRY
India
LANGUAGE
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
SUBTITLES
English
Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the 1948 London Olympics. Six decades later, when Nandy Singh, a member of this iconic team suffers a stroke, his tenacious struggle to recover, inspires his daughter to retrace his journey. Using archival footage and interviews with teammates, she reveals lives shaped by the Gold, and by Partition that made them refugees. Revealed also is a friend in Pakistan never spoken of before. Her journey in search of him morphs into a quest for the lost ‘watan’ (homeland).
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Bani Singh studied Space Design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and worked in the area of Museum studies later. She worked at the ‘Virasat-e-Khalsa Museum’ in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab as a gallery visualiser and content interpreter and was a senior faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. Taangh is her first film.
PERSONNEL
Cinematographer
Yugesh Walia, Sudhir Aggarwal and Bani Singh
Editor
Abhro Banerjee
Sound
Rajivan Ayyapan
Producer(s)
Bani Singh
