The Red Cap

14min  |  Bengali

An old woman invites her tenants, a brother-sister duo, for a sumptuous dinner. But she has a hidden motive of poisoning them.

As the siblings gorge on the savouries, the old woman reminisces about her horrifying past that might have some bearing on this outrageous act of crime.

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Synopsis

An old woman invites her new tenants, a brother-sister duo, for a lavish dinner. However, she secretly plans to carry out an outrageous act of poisoning them. The three of them have a nice time throughout the night playing, laughing, and savouring the sumptuous treat which the old woman prepared. In the morning, the sister and her brother are lying motionless on the bed. Has the old woman killed them?

In another room, our protagonist reminisces an incident from the past, which maimed her life forever. As an adolescent, she was playing hide-and-seek with a young man in the countryside. She seems to know her well judging by a beautiful bracelet on her hand, probably gifted by him. But the innocence soon disappeared into enormity. As dark clouds gathered over the horizon, the man chased her inside a barn and raped her. He had a hideous birthmark on his face and was wearing a red cap.

Years of agony, trauma, and anguish have confined the old woman to a reclusive life. What suddenly triggered such a grisly idea? Will she be able to carry it out eventually?

Credits

director: Chandradeep Das

producer: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Tuli Basu

cast: Sreelekha Mukherji, Rituparna Sarkar, Sabyasachi Banerjee, Jyoti Prasad Acharya

Story, Screenplay & Dialogues: Chandradeep Das

Art Director: Subhas Saha

Production Designer: Tanmoy Chakraborty

Director Of Photography: Sombhadra Mukherjee

Editor: Niladri Roy

Music: Amit Sur

Sound Designer: Saugata Banerjee

Co-Producer: Nikita Ivanenko

Distributor: Promofest