'Spandan' moves the audience immensely

As part of the short film programme, 'Spandan' a film by Shaillesh Dupare, a post graduate in Film Direction from the Film and Television Institute of India, was shown.

The film is based on the struggle of a young chess player, who suffers from Muscular Dystropy since the age of eleven. His fight against the disease goes on until he decides to win it over through a different way altogether. And he does. It is a terminal disease, and it pains her mother to see her son dying gradually. Her petition for Mercy Killing and donating his organs to the people who need it is dismissed by the court. The doctors refuse to help her out otherwise. The blind girl who stays with her grand father in the same ward, becomes his friend. He decides to finally lend his eyes to her, to give back something to this world.

This small story is based on immense understanding of the mental struggle he is going through. The film witnessed an audience who was deeply moved by the journey of this boy.

This film has won many accolades internationally and nationally and has been acclaimed critically.