The Great Shamsuddin Family

Synopsis

The Great Shamsuddin Family, a writer faces the most critical deadline of her career while her Delhi apartment descends into mayhem. Over the course of a single, sweltering day, she attempts a desperate 12-hour writing sprint, but her plans are constantly upended by an escalating domestic emergency involving her sprawling, quarrelsome, and utterly chaotic family. As tensions flare across generations—arguments over faith, urban anxieties, sibling rivalries, and unspoken grief collide—the cramped home becomes a microcosm. Rizvi masterfully juggles humour and heartbreak, turning the writer’s struggle for focus into a razor-sharp satire of family, faith, sisterhood, and survival. In the end, the deadline isn’t just about words on a page—it’s about reclaiming her voice amid the beautiful, maddening noise of belonging.

The Director will be present for a post screening discussion.