Guwahati: Inspired by true events, as the poster proclaims, ‘Noise of Silence’ is being Bollywood’s first film on the controversial exercise of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in which lakhs were left out in Assam.
According to a report published in Indian Express, gearing up for release on popular OTT platforms before the end of this year, the film was entirely shot in Tripura, another first for Bollywood.
Director Saif Baidya says it was made with the sole intention to portray the suffering of lakhs of people in Assam who were excluded from the NRC list and are running from pillar to post to prove their roots.
Baidya says he got the inspiration for the film after his former Assistant Director, whose father is in the Army, was left out of the NRC.
“Aditya had to go home to Assam twice every month to attend a courtroom. He and his mother had found themselves out of the then NRC draft list, though his father is a serving Indian Army official. He had been going twice a month since 2015. I thought the story needed telling,” he says.
A crew of 54 artistes worked in the film, a majority of them were from Tripura. The 44 cast members from Tripura included Hrishie Raj, Sayantika Nath, and Meenakshi Ghosh in lead roles.
Noise of Silence revolves around a couple that find themselves excluded from NRC list and a Rohingya Muslim girl who enters India in search of her mother.
“We could not release the movie in theatres due to the imposition of Covid-19 lockdown. The one hour and fifty minutes movie is expected to be released within one to one and half months on OTT platforms of the like of Zee 5, VOOT, Amazon Prime, Netflix etc,” he adds.
