Acclaimed actor Tannishtha Chatterjee whose credits include “Brick Lane,” “Anna Karenina,” “Lion,” and “Parched,” makes her directorial debut with “Roam Rome Mein.” The film had its premiere at Busan’s ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ strand.In the film, an Indian man goes to Rome looking for his missing sister and in the process discovers the real her, his own deep rooted patriarchal ideas, and the reasons why his sister might have wanted to free herself from their oppressive family structure.“There was an incident that happened in Venice a few years back when I went there for the festival,” Chatterjee told Variety.
“I met an old man who told me about his missing daughter.
But that experience was also kind of surreal.
Till date, I am not quite sure whether it really happened or more precisely what really happened.
That was the starting point of the idea.”“Roam” stars
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