Guwahati, May 27 -- Written by Kaushik Nath

Picture a child sitting at a desk on a May afternoon, the kind of afternoon where sunlight pours in through the window and, somewhere outside, other children are playing. He has homework to finish, tuition after that, then dinner, then sleep, then school again. This is not a scene from a film. This is just Tuesday for most children growing up in urban India today, a subtle, reminiscent scene like Satyajit Ray's short film Two.

Homework, the new Assamese film directed and written by Achinta Shankar, was released in theatres recently and comes from a director who has been quietly building one of the more interesting bodies of work in contemporary Assamese cinema. His earlier films, Pratighaat, D...