Sindoor is the trademark crimson powder that adorns the proud forehead of married women in India. A 400 year old tradition from Bengal which involves only married women is a celebration called 'Sindoor Khela' played during the last day of Durga puja.

This age old female bastion is challenged for the first time in India when the biggest Durga puja in Kolkatta throws opens its doors and invites ALL women and especially transgenders who are denied participation in this ceremony. Women who are single, divorced, widowed, transgenders and prostitutes who have never dreamt of being a part of this were encouraged to come out. There was a whiff of trepidation in the air as the usual participants came face to face with these forgotten women who have reluctantly just been audiences hidden in the shadows of society . What unfolds thereafter is a modern tradition in the making...

The film is about unobtrusive cinematography. A camera that makes itself invisible to the protagonists who happen to be real persons and to a narrative that happens to be real time. The demands of the narrative necessitated that no lights or such obvious tools of filmmaking were present. The camera was made an omnipresent device that could capture the emotional journey of the characters real-time and in their real space. It was almost akin to documented reality. Ofcourse multiple devices were used and simultaneous events live captured and eventually juxtaposed on the edit table. The challenge being in creating a strong cinematic language while being essentially documentary in nature."