The School Bag (2016)

Name: The School Bag
Genre: Drama, Kids & Family
Released: 2016-08-10

15m

Running Time

Plot.

The bond between a mother and her son is indeed a special one. It was the same between Farooq and his Ammi, but depends with he always longed for his father. They reside in the small town of Peshawar, Pakistan. Farooq, a child with a simple demand, wants to meet his father , whom he had not seen for long as his birthday gift. But his mother, did not really know how on earth she could fulfill her child's plea , coz his father had abandoned them for another woman. Unknown to Farooq, there is something waiting for him on his birthday.

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Cast & Crew.

Rasika Dugal

Ammi

Sartaaj Rkk

Farooq

Satchith Paulose

Director of Photography

Anshul Agrawal

Writer

Sartaaj Kakkar

Farooq

Anshul Agrawal

Co-Director

Dheeraj Jindal

Director

Media.

Details.

Release Date
August 10, 2016

Status
Released

Running Time
15m

Genres
Drama Kids & Family

Last updated: 2024-10-16

Wiki.

The School Bag is a 2017 short film directed by Dheeraj Jindal & Anshul Agrawal, written by Anshul Agrawal, starring Rasika Duggal and Sartaj RK.

The film has been screened at more than 100 film festival across 24 countries and won 44 awards in different categories. The film was applauded by critics as well public after its online release on Large Short Films.

The short film is based on a real life 2014 Peshawar school massacre in Pakistan when 132 children were killed in Army Public School, Peshawar by terrorists. Rasika Duggal who plays the mother who would do anything to bring a smile on her child's face it tells a story about the relationship between a mother and her seven-year-old son who wants a new school bag on his birthday, but fate has something else in store for him.