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In
life, death is inevitable, yet many resist accepting this
truth. This is the basic premise of this quasi-autobiographical
film. It is a personal and private story of a mother and her
only son of 12 years who suffers from Duchenne's Muscular
Dystrophy, a disease with no present cure. Life in its entirety
is too complex to portray in a single work of art; this film
allows us to celebrate an ordinary life through vignettes,
depicting an impossible situation with unfaltering hope. The
location is Guwahati, a town situated in the far east corner
of India. The basic material is documentary, shot in actual
locations with real-life characters. But the film has been
scripted to take a feature film format in most sequences and
can, perhaps, be viewed as a "real-life-fiction-feature".
In cinema, nothing can be portrayed as real, but at best as
realistic. This approach challenges the conventional line
of control between fiction and documentary. It is the director's
first film.
About the Director ...
Altaf Mazid completed
a Master's degree in Civil Engineering,and was on his way
to becoming an "elite". But the art of cinema would make it
otherwise. A passionate lover of Hollywood, he first pursued
his cultural enthusiasm as an IPTA-activist, simultaneously
working for a film society movement writing on cinema. He
has a large number of articles to his credit. Jibon is his
first celluloid venture. Professionally he is a government
employee.
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