Village Rockstars

Village Rockstars is a 2017 Indian Assamese language coming-of-age drama film written, edited, co-produced and directed by Rima Das, who is a self-taught filmmaker.

[2] Village Rockstars also won awards in three other categories: Best Child Artist, Best Location Sound Recordist and Best Editing.

Impressionable and tenacious at the same time, Dhunu reads a comic book and decides she wants to form a band playing real instruments.

Jury member Priyanka Dasgupta said, "Rima Das’ film is a lyrical montage of life and times in contemporary rural India.

Saibal Chatterjee, a founder member of the Society, gave the film a five-star rating, and says in his review, "A masterwork is usually the result of strict adherence to artistic and functional rules.

Village Rockstars respects none: it dons a raw, innocent cloak and exudes a degree of purity that deliberate craft can never bestow on a film...

The film stands for something that is always under threat: the courage to ignore the reality that life is exceedingly difficult for cinema that is made on the margins of a giant production machinery and recognize that there always are ways out for those who revel in battling the odds, no matter how daunting, and overcoming them.

"[9] Maggie Lee says in her review for Variety, "By focusing on tween characters, the picture evokes that freewheeling stage when gender roles are still blurry in the friendships between boys and girls.

The rituals held to initiate her into womanhood — making her wear a sari, segregating her from the boys — are seen as attempts to enforce her otherness.

"[11] Hannah Lynn of Pittsburgh City Paper compared the film to The Florida Project in that it is "aimless without being pointless"[12] while Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail called it "confident and sincere", giving it 3.5 out of 4 stars.

Director Rima Das ( third from right ) with cast and crew of the film at 48th International Film Festival of India , in Panaji , Goa on 21 November 2017