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New York: Soman Chainani’s Kali Ma, which spans 14 minutes of strong emotional content, recently won the Audience Award for the Best Short at the NewFest in New York beating out nearly 150 other competing films. It's a film that takes a new look at the immigrant experience.

“The movie's about an Indian mother who finds out that her son is being bullied at school. Instead of calling the principal or dealing with it through the school, she decides to take matters into her own hands. So, it just becomes a clash of two cultures,” says Chainani.

Bollywood character actress Kamini Khanna, who plays the role of the mother in the film, displays a range of emotions - from typical Indian housewife cooking lunch to the vengeful mother attacking her son's bully - a screen incarnation of the Goddess the film is named after.

“Inside every mother there is this inner Goddess. If you let it loose, that temper, it's just the cliché of the Indian mother, it can overwhelm everything. So, that's where it came from,” says Chainani.

Kali Ma has been already accepted in nearly 30 film festivals in the US. And its director hopes for an India release soon, clubbed with a feature film.