Readomania announces the release of Baanjh – Incomplete Live of Complete Women written by celebrated actress, theatre personality, and author Susmita Mukherjee.
The book explores the world of women across a wide spectrum of social strata. The author says, ’All the characters of BAANJH spoke to me from the depths of the people that I encountered: whiffs of conversations, wafts of stories, echoes, shadows, whispers. I've enjoyed meeting and observing women from all strata, highly wealthy and successful right down to menials, sex workers, migrant workers, middle-class women, village women, small-town women, the ordinary, nameless, faceless, yet each vibrating with the trembling potential of power and compassion.’
Eleven hard-hitting stories gathered from the observations of a seasoned actress, Susmita Mukherjee, who has portrayed many strong characters and observed much across the country. BAANJH—Incomplete Lives of Complete Women, a collection of short stories based on the author’s observations, takes you on a journey into the world of women from the society’s fringes as well as the high echelons—with entitled husbands and regressive labels; with high-power jobs and insecurities; with obsessions and mental issues; with open views on marriage and divorce; with oppressive employers driving them to the hilt; where lines of morality blur between the girlfriend and the wife. Susmita makes you gasp, ponder, empathize, and look at life like never before. The stories reiterate the fact that a woman’s worth is much more than just the labels that society bestows on her.
Susmita Mukherjee is an actor. A graduate of the National School of Drama, she has done pioneering work in her thirty-seven year-long career in theatre, films, and television. She is the founder of Naatak Company, a theatre group birthed in 1988 and her original play, Nati, won her many accolades and played to full houses at Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai and elsewhere. She has acted in over 100 films. Her most recent international film, Sold, deals with child trafficking. It was directed by Oscar-winning director Jeffery Brown and released in the US.
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