The Spark - Film August 26, 2009

The Spark - Film (Firingoti / 1991). Firingoti is set in the Assam of 1962. Ritu, the young widow, applies for a school teacher's job at the education department of the State Government. She has lost her husband recently and wants a change of atmosphere to pull herself out of her depression. She gets the job in a remote village, packs her bags and goes to the inaccessible hamlet in the interior of Assam. But when she gets there she is told that there is no school. That is impossible, she tells the village headman, because she has a letter of appointment from the Education Department of the State Government which gave her the job on the retirement of the previous teacher. It transpires that the the school had only been existing on paper. .She takes it as a challenge, and starts her own little school under a great big tree. A native of the village wants to know why an 'outsider' is given the job, why not a 'son of the soil' As part of Jahnu Barua Retrospective - Film Festival.

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