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IMFF@Austin : KOTHANODI

KOTHANODI
118 min | India | 2015 I Assamese with English subtitles

Four folk tales from Assam re-imagined as a narrative about four mothers, each facing demons of her own.

SYNOPSIS
Once upon a time, Senehi (Zerifa Wahid), a woman who loathes her stepdaughter Tejimola (Kasvi Sharma), plots her murder when her husband is called away on a distant trip on business. Her husband Devinath (Adil Hussain) - encounters a woman called Keteki (Urmila Mahanta) who has given birth to an outenga (elephant apple), which rolls around after her. Devinath resolves to unearth the mystery of the outenga. Meanwhile, in another village - a rich woman named Dhoneshwari (Seema Biswas) is getting her daughter Bonlotika (Monisha Bhuyan) married to a python - a wedding that has dire consequences for the girl. As these three stories unfold, another mother - Malati (Asha Bordoloi) - resolves to save her newest born from the clutches of her husband Poonai (Kopil Bora) and his uncle, who have sacrificed all three of her previous babies. In doing so, she unearths a shocking truth.

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