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The Mystical Lake With Sweet Fish
Production Country (s) India Production Company (s) Metanormal Motion Pictures
Genre Drama / Road Movie Production Spec 4K / Color / 100 min
Production Stage
(or Project Status)		 In Development Expected Date of Completion Mid 2022
Total Budget
(Negative Cost)		 275,000 USD Confirmed Financing 5,000 USD
(Equity investor)
Fellow Name Shyam BORA
Director Rukshana TABASSUM Email of Director rukshanat@gmail.com
Profile of the Director Rukshana Tabassum is a graduate in Direction from Film & Television Institute of India. Her most recent short film The Cake Story (2018), produced by the Children’s Film Society of India, won the 'Special Mention' at the 65th Indian National Film Awards in 2018. Her previous short films Mission Sunday (2015) and Adharottar (2011) played at Chicago Children’s Film Festival, San Diego Children’s Film Festival, Mumbai International Film Festival, Osian Cine Fest, and New York International Film Festival for Children among other film festivals. The Mystical Lake With Sweet Fish is slated to be her feature debut.
Producer (s) Shyam BORA / Bhaskar HAZARIKA Email of Producer (s) shyambora7@gmail.com
hazarika@gmail.com
Profile of the Producer (s) Shyam Bora’s latest feature Aamis (2019) premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in the International Narrative Competition section. His film credits include Executive Producer of Bhaskar Hazarika's Kothanodi (2015) which premiered at Busan IFF; Line and Associate Producer of Pan Nalin's Angry Indian Goddesses (2015), winner of Audience Awards at Toronto IFF & Rome IFF and Line Producer of the feature documentary Faith Connections (2013) by Pan Nalin, which premiered at Toronto IFF.

Bhaskar Hazarika’s debut film Kothanodi (2015) received the Asian Cinema Fund’s Post Production Grant and had its World Premiere at Busan IFF. Kothanodi’’s festival selections also include the BFI London FF 2015, Jio MAMI Mumbai FF 2015, Goteborg FF 2016, and IFFLA 2016 amongst others. Aamis (2019), his second and latest feature, premiered at Tribeca FF 2019 in the International Narrative Competition Section.
Logline A rebellious teenager needs money to escape home while her eccentric granny wants to travel 500 kilometers in search of a mythical fish for a perfect exit from the world. Both elope together from home at night, chased by one very harried policewoman - granny's daughter and the girl's mother.
Synopsis RITIKA (19) hates her life under the strict control of her single mother INDIRA (43), who is also the local cop. Ritika wants to escape and has the will, but no money. Ritika's grandma MAKHONI (73) too plans to escape and has for long fantasized about her exit from life. Makhoni is determined to leave the world on a boat rowed by a mythical angel in a lake hidden from the world. It is said that if one reaches the angel, he will offer a special sweet fish and upon consuming it, angel would row the person into afterlife.

An agreement of convenience takes place between the two. For a princely sum, Ritika will smuggle Makhoni all the way to the mystical angel. With her newfound money, Ritika plans to take escape home. The two sneak out of the house at night. Shrewd Ritika had expertly planned the whole escape but the best laid plans often go awry. To compound their issues on the road, a very angry Indira is hot on their heels.

As the trip branches off in unexpected directions, both the pursued and the pursuer meet a bunch of characters and discover new meanings to their own lives. When they finally reach the mystical lake, the angel is waiting for Makhoni. But Ritika loves her grandma too much to let her go and Indira wants them both to stay back. Makhoni has a decision to make. Happy to see her daughter and granddaughter together again, Makhoni waves them goodbye.