Rakesh Chaudhary | 21 mins | India | 2010

An old man takes his grandson to witness a solar eclipse in this gorgeously rendered view of life in a small town in India.

Mr. Pathak is a retired civil engineer and lives in Taregna, a small town in India. He is worn out by life’s many setbacks and is indifferent to his family – Laxmi, his daughter-in-law and Roshan, his 8-year old grandson.

The announcement by NASA that the best place to watch an upcoming solar eclipse will be Taregna, has no impact on Pathak. However, Roshan’s curiosity for the celestial event of a lifetime is boundless. When Pathak finally realizes that Roshan desperately needs a father figure, he can no longer remain a bystander to life.

SCREENING SCHEDULE
Reaching Space
3:00pm  Saturday, October 15, 2011
Museum of the Moving Image

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Director | Rakesh Chaudhary
Producer | Rakesh Chaudhary
Editor | Sachin Tawde
Screenwriter | Rakesh Chaudhary
Cinematographer | Santosh Vasandi
Cast | Surendra Rajan,Geetika Tyagi,Purav Bhandare,Saagar Kale

DIRECTOR BIO
Rakesh Chaudhary’s past credits include Kwik Meal and Zamir and Preeti: A Love Story. When Chaudhary met a bigshot Bollywood producer to narrate The Eclipse of Taregna, the producer asked him– “What’s a short film!” After meeting many such producers, Chaudhary ended up self-financing his film with the help of a friend and the film went on to win the grand jury prize for the best short film at the 2011 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.