Dhumpaner Opokarita (Smoking blocks...) (2022)

Set in the backdrop of the lockdown announced in India, to prevent the spread of the Covid-19, this film captures such an Indian middle class family from the state of West Bengal. Coping with the new situation, stranded at home, a Bengali couple with their young two children revisited their family relations and enjoyed spending quality family life together. The anxiety prevailed the time due to different confusing interpretations and anticipations towards to the dangerous new virus. The supply chain of cigarettes was badly affected. The middle-class family structure never can accept women smoking and considers that being in contradiction to the respectable femininity that drives the reputation of the Indian family value system identifying the Nation. Hence, the daughter never had the courage to confess the fact of her smoking habits to her family. The son and the father could go out of the house though rarely and buy their pack of cigarettes, but the daughter couldn't. Her thirst for cigarettes drove her into a constant tension with her parents, which also invited funny suspense from them about her. Lastly, to save the respectability of their family design, the family suppresses the daughter's little chances of revolting against the patriarchy. They provide her the much craved pack of cigarettes but mitigating her objection against this imposition of the structure.