And I Am The Arrow

Three generations of women. The ghost of a man cut in two on a train track. An electric, playful, propulsive epic that spans Calcutta, London and New York, and the worlds of the living and the dead.

Chatterjee Mansion is a 1940s art-deco house in Calcutta with floors of polished marble and rooms filled with lies and omissions. In this house, late on a rain-soaked night, the turn of a single key shatters all that is known to be true.

Full of dark humour and unexpected turns, And I Am The Arrow is a kaleidoscopic tale of flight, forbidden love, and secrets that hide in plain sight. Trying to make sense of this world is Mishu, a young woman recently returned to India, just as Niyoti, her grandmother and the family matriarch, falls into a coma. As Mishu, her mother Ira, and their servant Bani wait to see if Niyoti wakes or leaves them forever, long-buried truths come to the surface, revealing a dramatic story of India’s social and political struggles entwined with the family’s gains and sacrifices.

Narrated by the women and the ghost who haunts them all, And I Am The Arrow is an exploration of death and grief, of memory and reality, and of the ways we love and bruise each other.