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Uma gives her first glimpse before Poila Boishakh

Teaser of Uma released ahead of Poila Boishakh

Kolkata, 14th April, 2018 – The first look teaser video of SVF’s upcoming venture Uma was released a day before Bengali New Year, bringing in the news of Uma’s advent on earth. The teaser came out on 14th April, a day before the people of Bengal go on to celebrate ‘Poila Boishakh’ a festival that brings hope and happiness in their lives, similar to what the film Uma would be conveying to its audience.

The teaser starts off with the joyous sight of Mother Goddess Uma and concludes with a partial glimpse of the onscreen ‘Uma’ evoking joy and excitement in the minds of the audience. The teaser also gives us a peek into a foray of powerful thespians like Anjan Dutt, Rudranil Ghosh, Abhijit Guha, Anirban Bhattacharya, Neel Mukherjee who too seemed to be waiting eagerly like the audience to catch a glimpse of ‘Uma’. The teaser with the voiceover of Jisshu U Sengupta, coveys to us the message that together human beings can move mountains.

Uma is the story of a young girl who is fighting a terminal disease, a father who is struggling to make his daughter’s dreams come true and about a director whose past haunts him. It starts off with Uma, a young girl brought up in Austria, being diagnosed with a terminal disease and goes on about how Himadri, her father takes her to Kolkata to fulfil her dream by setting up a fake Durga Puja, the most celebrated festival among Bengalis. The film is inspired from the true story of Evan Leversage, the Canadian boy who moved Christmas.

Srijit Mukherji, director of the film, goes on to say, “The teaser of Uma gives us the hope to survive, that I have tried to convey through my film. Evan’s story taught us to never lose hope and showed us the power of unity. Uma’s story reverberates the same.”

Mahendra Soni, Co-Founder and Director, SVF, is very optimistic about the reception of the film and goes on to say that – “Uma’s teaser evokes a lot of positivity and we are sure that this film will inspire us and our audience.”

Uma, directed by national award winning director Srijit Mukherji and starring father-daughter duo Jisshu U Sengupta & Sara Sengupta, has already been recognised by New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) 2018, London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) 2018, India Film Festival of Alberta (IFFA) 2018 and Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2018. It is scheduled to release in June 2018.

The teaser of the film is available at: bit.ly/UmaOfficialTeaser

ABOUT SVF:

SVF is Eastern India’s largest entertainment company, having business interests in Film Production, Television Content Production, Film Distribution, Digital Cinema, Music, New Media and Cinemas. SVF has successfully produced over 120 films including National Award winning ‘Chokher Bali’, ‘Raincoat’, ‘Memories in March’, ‘Chitrangada’ and ‘Chotoder Chobi’; blockbusters like ‘Challenge 2’, ‘Chander Pahar’, ‘Zulfiqar’, ‘Yeti Obhijaan’, ‘Amazon Obhijaan’ and critically acclaimed ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’, ‘Cinemawala’, ‘Dhananjoy’ to name a few.

SVF’s newest venture is Hoichoi, a one-stop online destination for Bengali entertainment – an on- demand video streaming Website and App with over 500 Movies and Original Web Series, Films and soon, Documentaries. (Hoichoi is available for download on iTunes – http://bit.ly/iTunesHCDownload and Android – http://bit.ly/AndroidHCDownload)