FICCI FLO hosts the screening of Flickering Angels

Introducing the film, Anupama Surekha, Chairperson of FLO said, “Today is the day of gratitude and thanksgiving, life is a journey of experiences and in the fast moving world we are forgetting  how privileged and lucky we are. But there are so many innocent delicate hearts which are broken, they are none but the children of the convicts. No matter how corrupted and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else.”

Flickering Angels is a tale of children of convicts, especially girl child.

B.D Sharma, former senior IPS who initiated reforms in jail, Dr Sabyasachi Mitra, Clinical Psychiatrist; Sister Marietta, Ex-Superintendent, Holy Child Home; the film's director Subhrajit Mitra, producer Gaurang Jalan, and Anupama Sureka, Chairman, FLO spoke on the occasion.

They discussed giving a new life to the convict’s children who are separated form their parents and are in care of a home in a remote area in Ranaghat, on India-Bangladesh Border.

Flickering Angels takes the viewers on a learning journey through the lives of children, trying to triumph over the social and financial hurdles that life has carved out for them.

Director of the film Shubrajit Mitra said, “This documentary is a realistic one. It is the power of realistic films to make a difference to girls' life, we should have more of this type of screenings,"

He said there should be proper infrastructure for taking documentary films to people and the basic aim of this documentary is to create awareness.

(Reporting by Camellia Chatterjee)