Bornila Chatterjee's 'The Hungry' poses a gut-wrenching question

The Hungry is heading to the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in October

The Hungry, Bornila Chatterjee’s second feature, may leave some viewers queasy from all the gore, blood and raw violence in it. But this is actually a toned down version of its source material, as the director noted during an interview at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, or TIFF, where the film had its world premiere. The original story, from which The Hungry has been adapted, is the play Titus Andronicus, believed to be William Shakespeare’s first tragedy. 

The film came about as a result of a contest inviting scripts that were adaptations of Shakespeare’s work set in an Indian context.