About the Event

THE COLOUR OF LOSS

based on ‘The White Book’ by HAN KANG

translated by DEBORAH SMITH

design & direction MOHIT TAKALKAR

Performed by

MRINMAYEE GODBOLE | IPSHITA

MANASI BHAWALKAR | DIPTI MAHADEV

production design ASHISH MEHTA

music SAURABH BHALERAO 

lighting design VIKRANT THAKAR

costume RASHMI RODE 

hair & makeup ASHISH DESHPANDE

assistant direction HRISHIKESH PUJARI, SUYOG DESHPANDE 

sound recordist GANESH PHUKE

language coach SHERNAZ PATEL

technical consultant VINAYAK LELE

camera

shot at THE BOX 

team tcol PAYAL, NACHIKET, VIBHAV, ALAP, PRAJAKTA, RAHUL, PARNA, DEVIKA

SYNOPSIS

From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the colour white

While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. THE WHITE BOOK becomes a meditation on the colour white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colours in stark white--breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-coloured skin--and, from here, visits all that glows in her memory: from a white dog to sugar cubes.

As the writer reckons with the enormity of her sister's death, Han Kang's trademark frank and chilling prose is softened by retrospection, introspection, and a deep sense of resilience and love. THE WHITE BOOK--ultimately a letter from Kang to her sister--offers powerful philosophy and personal psychology on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.