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SECOND CHANCE

SECOND CHANCE

Kaleidoscope I
Bengali, English
DIRECTOR : Mallika Sothinathan
CAST : Anuradha Chatterjee, Soumya Ahuja, Divya Sivagnanam, Sudipta Chatterjee
DATE & TIME: Oct 13 at 7:00 PM
VENUE: IFFSA AT HOME - Watch on our VIRTUAL THEATRE from the comfort of your home
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SYNOPSIS

Second Chance is a poignant and musically rich fictional film that follows the intertwined lives of three resilient characters, each standing at a crossroads of heartbreak, healing, and hope.

At its core is Maya, a woman awakening to a fragile dawn after years spent in the shadows of emotional abuse. The film opens in quiet stillness—bruises, both visible and unseen, marking her recent past. A simple morning ritual becomes her first act of defiance: a steaming cup of tea and a breath that declares, “I’m still here.”

As Maya stares into the mirror, the reflection that greets her is no longer shaped by the loss of youth or the weight of age—it’s a woman reclaimed. Her past relationship, once a source of suffocating pain, has left her shattered. But from those fractures, a new kind of strength begins to emerge, stitched together not by someone else’s love, but by her own courage.

Maya begins to write again—this time for herself. Her ink-stained hands are not just symbols of creativity, but of a reclamation of power. In a climactic moment, the three characters collaborate on a community stage show, weaving poetry, jazz, and dance into a soul-bearing performance. The chorus—”She walks again, not to escape, but toward a dream she dares to shape”—echoes as a rallying cry for anyone who thought their time had passed.

Second Chance is not about grand redemptions or perfect endings—it’s about quiet resilience, creative rebirth, and the music of starting over.

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