CHAMELI MEMSAAB

A love story – set in a tea estate in Assam – between a British tea estate owner and local tea garden worker.

A persuasive adaptation of Nirode Choudhury’s Assamese short story, Chameli Memsaab ingeniously uses leprosy as a device to reveal the deeply ingrained, unconscious class bias of an otherwise progressive people. Bhupen Hazarika’s score elevates this social drama with its profound, folk style.