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ARMS OF A MAN

SABAR BONDA

By Rohan KANAWADE

First film - Post-Production 2024

A 30 year old city-dweller compelled to spend a ten-day mourning period in the rugged countryside of his late father’s ancestral village bonds with a local itinerant goat herder. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, he must decide the fate of his burgeoning but complicated new relationship.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- First film, Drama, LGBT
- Countries
- INDIA, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE
- Languages
- MARATHI
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Rohan KANAWADE
- Writer(s)
- Rohan KANAWADE
- Cast
- Bhushan BHINGARKAR, Suraj SHINDE, Jayshree JAGTAP
- Producer(s)
- Neeraj CHURI (LOTUS VISUAL PRODUCTIONS), Kaushik RAY (Taran Tantra Telefilms), Ilann GIRARD (ARSAM INTERNATIONAL)
- Synopsis
- Anand (30), a Mumbai-based call center worker is forced to spend the ten-day mourning period at his village following the loss of his father at the behest of his mother, a place he has avoided vising for many years.
  
  Post cremation, as the austere ten-day mourning starts, Anand faces relentless badgering from the relatives to marry. Anand misses this father, his biggest support. His mother, aware of Anand’s sexuality remains neutral.
  
  Anand, feeling stifled, finds solace in his childhood friend Baalya (30), a farmer, who asks Anand to join him to graze goats. Baalya, out only to Anand, has used the “educated girls favoring city-dwellers over farmers” as a ruse to stay unmarried but still is being forced by his family to get married.
  
  Attempting to escape pressures, the two men begin to spend time together. Though hailing from different worlds, they connect over their common struggle. With each passing day their intimacy blooms emotionally and physically, will their burgeoning bond survive beyond the ten days?
  
  “Arms of Man” explores bonds that develop under duress and their future.
  
  The film was selected for:
  Venice Gap financing Market 2023
  Venice Biennale College Cinema 2022/23 cohort
  Film London production finance Market - New Talent Strand 2021
  NFDC Film Bazaar CPM 2022
  NFDC Marathi Script Lab 2021