The director who puts the whole illusion together is Brahmananda. Her father is Himadri, her mother Menoka.
Mukherji has named the characters to create an ironic plot out of mythology in real life. Mukherji highlights the importance of story-telling in our lives, the process of film-making, the film-maker playing God, a film’s ability to alter lives, even as Himadri tells Brahmananda that not a single frame of any film has the power to change anything. Gobindo, in turn, puts him in touch with a washed-out film-maker Brahmananda (Anjan Dutt), who puts together a team to execute what he feels could be his final masterpiece.īut it’s never easy-going as at every step Himadri has to encounter not only the disbelief of his partners-in-illusion but the many logistical issues he has to resolve – including conjuring a ‘mother’ for his daughter, a mother who had eloped with her lover when Uma was barely two years old.Ī film-maker owes it to himself to tell a story, often only with passion at his disposal, even if, like in this case, the story is not being recorded on film and will never be available for posterity. Through close friends in the city, Himadri meets Gobindo (Rudranil Ghosh), a production manager. The stage is thus set for the unfolding of a miracle. When Himadri Sen (Jisshu Sengupta), who resides in Switzerland, learns that his daughter Uma (Sara, Jisshu’s real-life daughter) has only a few months to live, he undertakes the impossible task of recreating Durga Puja in the month of April, painting the entire city of Kolkata in festive colours in the process – just to fulfil Uma’s final wish of witnessing Bengal’s most celebrated festival for the first time. His dying wish of witnessing Christmas celebrations for one last time moved the entire townsfolk to organise a ‘fake Christmas’ several months before that hallowed time of the year. The story of 'Uma' is inspired by the real-life story of Evan Leversage – a terminally-ill Canadian boy from St George, Ontario. This film is a heart-warming tale of human emotions – nothing short of a miracle, really – and I have to say Mukherji did a very good job of transporting the story to the city of Kolkata. Seeing his own daughter Sara as a terminally-ill child wasn't easy for him as a father. Jisshu expressed in an interview that while shooting for ‘Uma’ he had gone through a difficult time on the sets.
This cinema has captured a desperate and doting father, it shows how far a father can go to fulfill his daughter’s last wish.
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Both father and daughter have poured their souls out to make this movie win our hearts. Sara is the titular character Uma who is the embodiment of her dreams, innocence and subtle maturity. The film starrs Jisshu Sengupta and his daughter Sara Sengupta that makes their relationship look natural and realistic throughout the film. Srijit Mukherji’s 'Uma' is more than a film it shows how a real-life father-daughter’s bonding can become a reel-life magnum opus.
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