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In, out and about 2024

The Village of Lost Words 2023
FTII Documentary Excercise

Bhule Chuke Tules (To the Forgotten) 2023
A personal exploration of one's lost identity, reflecting upon the oral literature passed through generations within the Gor-Banjara tribe

Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know... 2023 star_border 4
Once upon a time in a village, an old lady steals the rooster and the sun never rises again.

In the Lap of the Mountain 2023
Due to the caste dynamics and hierachy prevailing in Golegaon as in the rest of the country, the Adivasi people in the village struggle to hold onto their traditions and assert their own individual identity as a community in the very place that has belonged to them for generations.

Trishna (Longing) 2022
Madhav, a playful 8-year-old boy who has spent most of his time playing outdoors in the village, is being sent to town for educational purposes.

Kalsubai 2021
An ethnographic film exploring the legend of Mahadeo Koli Goddess Kalsu, whose presence remains impregnated in the consciousness of the women of the tribe today.

Songs from a Far Away Land 2020
Three siblings, brother Dinu and two sisters Anu and Buri meet on a seashore one morning after their mother's death. They reminiscence about their mother and her relentless journey in search of 'home'. Gradually as they dwell through their personal memories of 'mother' they unknowingly enter into unknown dark zones of mother and their own lives. The spirits of their ancestors too become part of their stories as the two sisters preform their memories. Dreams, fantasies, memories and reality starts to overlap to form a complex image of 'mother' in search of home.

Bhumigat 2019
Through faces and bodies of real life labourers emerges an epistolary account of a daily wage owner who suddenly finds himself out of work one day. As rampant industrialisation surges, a new class is born - a crowd of nomadic migrant workers whose lives are a series of transitions in search of work. Folk tale and memory as witnesses to this rapidly changing world through their eyes.

Wet Blue Tarpaulin 2019
A man from Assam working in Maharashtra encounters the foreign city when he is asked to get a fake ID card made to continue his job.

A Letter to Home 2019 star_border 10
Glimpses of lives from a village in Assam reveal the relationship between its history and the present. People’s lives and beliefs are entangled with ecological strings , as nature stands witness to the narratives that unfolded there. A young boy, Rahul, hopes to write a book on his experience of growing up in this village. His mother, being deeply connected with nature can sense messages and signs arising from nature.. Urmila, a pregnant lady, is driven by sensorial experiences. But, In contrast to the serenity and harmonious living; there lurks a violent societal past.These peaceful and quiet lives intersect in a space where traumatic memories of death and loss in Assam’s thirty years of secessionist movement keep resurfacing.

Sea of Lost Time 2019
Sea of Lost Time is an allegory set in an undefined time and space, evoking the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, inspired by his characters. A soldier comes back from the dead to a seaside village. He reminisces on the time lost while he was away, like a sea between his past and the dysfunctional present. Through him we discover a motley of characters: a rag-tag musical band, a man locked up inside an abandoned horse stable, his sister, also the soldier’s lover and who has been bemoaning the loss. An impressionistic view of the intertwined lives of those inhabiting imaginary spaces, with an underpinning of social and political metaphors.

Three Two One 2018
Snippets of events in an urban police station unfold the relationship between SI Piyush and ASI Ratika. Though they share an intimacy, Ratika is not yet ready to be in a relationship. Another SI Vishwanath has a sense of affection towards her, but he can not express his feelings to her

Jivari 2017
Jivari, in Indian Classical Music, refers to the overtone-rich sound characteristic of classical Indian string instruments such as Tanpura, Sitar, Surbahar, Rudra Veena and Saraswati Veena. Jivari can refer to the acoustic phenomenon itself and to the meticulously carved bone, ivory or wooden bridges that supports the strings on the sounding-board that produce this particular effect. The film attempts to trace the bridge between the craftsman and the musician by exploring the intimate bond Zakir Bhai and music shop hse with classical music, and how this bond has evolved over the years, interspersed with letters

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 2017
Documentary chronicling the 101 year old ex Mr. Universe Manohar Aich

Afternoon Clouds 2017
Kaki is a 60-year-old widow who lives with her Nepali maid, Malti. The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Malti meets a boy (a sailor) from her hometown unexpectedly.

After Dark 2017
An act of violence resonates through the night, touching upon the lives of different characters, who otherwise would not necessarily exist in each other’s daily narrative. The story is seen through the self contained world of seven characters as they drift along the otherwise mundane night meandering around the graphical symmetry of a ‘modern’ city. The story is based on excerpts taken from a novel by Haruki Murakami by the same name

Sakhisona 2017 star_border 5
Near Mogulmari in the south of West-Bengal in India lies a mountain known locally as Sakhisona. The stories about it are still sung by local musicians. A dig nearby recently uncovered the remains of a monastery as well as 6th-century objects. The film shows the objects unearthed and re-enacts the stories and folklore.

Days of Autumn 2016 star_border 6
An elderly couple lives a mundane life in a remote village in Assam.An atmosphere of absence pervades their household. One morning, a young boy comes to sell winter clothes and talks about his home which is three states away. A pleasant breeze signals the subtle change of season and hints towards a solitary time packed with memories of youth.

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