Bose co-wrote the Bedabrata Pain directed film Chittagong , a period drama that chronicles the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid . Her 2014 production , '' Margarita , with a Straw '' , starring Kalki Koechlin as a girl with cerebral palsy , premiered at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim . The film won the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film at the event . She had begun working on the script a year after the death of her son ; the film 's initial draft won the Sundance Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award , at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival . Bose was inspired to make the film by her real life experiences of studying in New York , her relationship with her cousin Malini Chib who has cerebral palsy , and her and Chib 's sexuality as queer and disabled people respectively . The film was originally rejected by the censor board in India , but won appeal and was released shortly after the ban on homosexuality in India was lifted
2012 Sundance Film Festival
2012 Sundance Film Festival
Shonali Bose