Assamese short film qualified as entry for Oscars Awards

A 15-minute Assamese movie ‘Mur Ghurar Duronto Goti’ (The Horse from Heaven), has qualified to be sent as an entry for the Oscar Awards in the short film fiction category. This was informed by the director of the film Maharshi Tuhin Kashyap.

The film tells the story of a man who believes that he has the fastest horse in the world and wants it to win all races in the city, but what he actually has is not a horse but a donkey.

The film was made as a student project at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata, and recently won the best film award at the Bengaluru International Short Film Festival which is an Oscar-qualifying film festival.

It may be mentioned here that the main crew of the film are presently final year SRFTI students and the film was shot mostly inside the campus and the institute’s studio while some parts were shot in the outskirts of Kolkata.

Notably, the director, who has also written the film’s script, used Assam’s 600-year-old dying story-telling art form ‘Ojapali’ to narrate his tale.

Ojapali performers tell stories from mythology by singing, dancing, using gestures, and having humorous conversations with the audience during their performance.