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Shonali Bose’s first feature Amu (2005) was awarded best film and best director at India’s National Film Awards and screened in official selection at Berlin and Toronto.

She also wrote and produced Chittagong (2011), which was directed by her husband Bedabrata Pain.

Her new project, Margarita, With A Straw, earned her the distinction of becoming the first Indian to receive the Sundance-Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award. The story was inspired by Bose’s cousin who was born with cerebral palsy.

The story follows Laila, a spunky teenager from a middle-class Delhi family, who lives with cerebral palsy. Transferred by her mother to New York University, she meets feisty Khanum and chilled-out Jared. Always curious about sexuality, Laila never dreamed she would actually experience it.

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“We are used to having pity for disabled characters, or admiration as they triumph against all odds.

Margarita’s honest treatment of its disabled characters pulls the rug from under your feet,” says Bose.

Paul Federbush, head of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Programme, says: “Margarita is exploring subjects that are new in world cinema, let alone India.”

Shot in Delhi and New York, the film stars Indian and international actors such as Kalki Koechlin, Revathy and William Moseley. The crew includes Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty, lyricist Prasoon Joshi, composer Mikey McCleary and DoP Anne Misawa (Treeless Mountain). Bose will be showing a rough cut of Margarita, With A Straw at Film Bazaar and is seeking completion funding.

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