B and S

A personal essayistic documentary that explores the beauty and depths of friendship between B and S. While going through corridors of loneliness, as they struggle with their immediate world that refuses to see them for who they are, friendship becomes the idea of home and family, where the deepest connections and belongingness are found. The filmmaker introduces this tender friendship to her late grandaunt through imaginary conversations that carry in them fragments of shared love and longings, drawing intimate connections between human and non-human worlds.

Such a long embrace of life - coming soon

A middle-aged woman faces a challenging crossroads as she decides to separate from her longtime husband. Her life intersects with people from both her past and present, each bringing their complex worlds. Amid the everyday experiences of love and loss, body and sexuality, dreams and despair, and the struggle between remembering and forgetting, she navigates the relentless passage of time. Whether she chooses to be ridiculed by the dilemma or not creates this conversational narrative — a narrative about people meeting and separating.

Night and Fear

The unfinished, untold residuals of recorded material generated by the filmmaker over the years have aged just enough to correlate and run a parallel narrative. The past, the present, the fear and the intuitive self have found shelter in the characters and spaces from the world captured through image and sound. The twofold interior of the surfaced voice is the film.

Backstage

The film portrays the lives and times of puppeteers of Odisha, India. It documents four forms of puppetry; the glove, the string, the rod and the shadow, which are now being performed by their last generation of artists. After them, the art form will probably die. The folk art form, which is as vulnerable as its performers who mostly belong to the lower strata of the society in terms of caste and economy, is experiencing a silent death. The filmmaker builds a personal narrative to trace the time a dying art form is going through.

The Waterfall

The film has been made for School Cinema, LXL Ideas, to be screened in hundreds of schools across India and other countries. The film has two versions, English and Hindi. The film has been entirely shot around the Khandadhar waterfall and in the nearby forests in the district of Sundergarh, Odisha.

The Waterfall traces the evolution of a young city boy, Karun, to appreciate the value of the environment as well as think critically about climate change and development. On a trip to his ancestral home in the interiors of the state of Orissa in India, he reflects on the nature of his relationship with a beautiful landscape and its relationship in turn with his city life.

Some Stories around Witches

The film does not deal with witchcraft as a practice. It depicts the humanitarian crisis surrounding the cases of witch hunting, taking us closer to the people who have been accused, ostracized and tortured, and the circumstances that have led to it. The film primarily engages with three cases from Odisha, India, which find resonance in other parts of the country as well. A teenage girl kills an old woman, one of her relatives, thinking that she is a witch and the cause of her father’s death. A village turns into a mob over night to kill three people, a man and two women, who were identified as witches by a witch doctor. A family believed to bring ill-fate are ostracized and threatened after they cook meat. Talking about the nuances of the incidents, the film tries to explore the politics of witch hunting - how superstitions, greed, ignorance, fear, insecurity, power in combination can result in immense suffering.

Dragonfly and Snake

The film is in the form of a conversation. A conversation between the filmmaker and her grand aunt whom she calls Aai. She spent all her summer vacations with Aai in her village. Now there is no summer vacation for her anymore. She lives far removed in a big city and works as a sound recordist. Listening to the rumble of the city intently she realises that the strong elements of sound that make up her memory are associated with the time she spent during the vacations. There is a new detachment from her village, from Aai, that has been developed over the years. These feelings lead her to have an imaginary conversation with Aai. Two screens run simultaneously throughout the film giving a notion of a letter. The dialogue arising from the two screens triggers a sense of conflict between the inside and the outside, the old and the new, land and the sea, night and day, village and the city, visual and aural.The film also works as a document of the ambience of the city of Mumbai.