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Rimi has won the Best Screenplay (Student) at  DadaSaheb Phalke Film Festival Award 2021, after which it went ahead to premier at IFFSA – Toronto 2021, Indisches FilmFestival Stuttgart 2021, IDSFFK Kerala 2022 and India’s only Oscar Qualifying FilmFestival – Bengaluru International Short FilmFestival 2021. It has also bagged awards at Regina International Film Festival, Artist Forum – New York City and Sunderland Short FilmFestival 2022, UK. Rimi was also MetFilm’s student entry to the BAFTA Student Awards 2021.

To return to the beginning. To return to the self. This movie is a story of The Return. It is the heroic journey going inward. The story of a housewife disconnected from her own self, begins in a typical Indian middle-class house and kitchen with the chai boiling. The heroine Rimi, played by Deepa Kiran, is dressed in a nightie in the opening scene a dress as de-energised as her daughter’s friend Riya’s is bright, who makes a dramatic entry at the transformation scene, and is in flamboyant looped earrings and colourful clothing. Back to the beginning scene, the onions are tossed in the pan, husband’s cloths are ironed, vegetables are fried and the whole family of four, Rimi, her husband, her son and her daughter, sit at the table while Rimi pours the cornflakes in a bowl. Food acts as a metaphor, wherein the chai in the traditional Indian glass cup, the cut onion, the milk all are invested with the power that the banal holds over the spontaneous and creative. Life giving nutrition suppressing life. Mid-way through Riya arrives as a guest and asks Rimi about what she feels about the rain outside. And yes, it has been raining since the very beginning. Watch the film to experience Rimi’s return to herself.