Black
feature film, 2005
DIRECTED BY: Bhansali, Leela
CAST:
Amitabh Bachchan (Debraj Sahai),
Rani Mukherjee (Michelle McNally),
Shernaz Patel (Catherine 'Cathy' McNally),
Ayesha Kapoor (mlada Michelle McNally),
Dhritiman Chatterjee (Paul McNally)
SCRIPT:
Sanjay Leela Bhansali,
Bhavani Iyer,
Prakash Kapadia
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Ravi K. Chandran
Synopsis:
Partially based on Hellen Keller’s biography, Black is a story about a blind, mute and deaf girl and her long-time mentor. Eight year old Michelle is a prisoner of the world of darkness. She has problems with connecting herself to the surrounding world and thus has fits of rage. Her desperate parents find her an eccentric teacher Debraj who invests a lot of time and effort to reach her.
35 mm, color, 122 min