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Manaroopa

This movie showcases a planned get-together of five youngsters as friends after some time since they parted their ways post college graduation. They presumed that union to bring innumerable memories of their past after each of them are already settled in their respective professions. To celebrate such floodgates of memories as friends and to turn a reunion into a more exciting one, they lead to the dense forests of the Western Ghats. They are excited that such a unique get-together would unwind their kinds of pasts college friends. Their trip is aimed at many angles. They preferred going to KaradiGuhe (Bear cave) instead to share the old memories through juxtaposing friendship, love, pranks and even hatred besides discussing each other's future plans as well.

Manaroopa

6.0 2019
From Janata Colony to Janata Colony (imaginary to destroyed)

The work narrates the social, cultural and political history of the “housing question” in Mumbai, by bringing together cinema, state-sponsored documentary, newspapers, policy reports and archives from social movements, among other source materials. These materials are assembled, via a hand-built web editor, into a new kind of "annotated film" that links to online archival sources. Drawing in form from the video lecture-performance style honed on CAMP's rooftop cinema and studio that takes its audience on dense archival journeys, the work examines a "poor man's colony" that was set up in the 1950s and destroyed twenty-five years later to make room for an atomic research facility in Bombay.

From Janata Colony to Janata Colony (imaginary to destroyed)

NR 2019
Naach Bhikhari Naach

Naach is a form of traditional folk theatre from Bihar, India. In this tradition, male artists often crossdress as women on stage and are referred to as ‘laundas’. The most legendary name in this tradition is Bhikhari Thakur’s— an actor, playwright, and a social reformer popularly known as the ‘Shakespeare of Bhojpuri.’ The film follows the last four Naach performers to have worked with him and creates a visual archive of their performance tradition. As they share their plays, songs and a lifetime of memories, they immerse us into the world of folk theatre where we begin to see a glimpse of budhau– the old man, himself.

Naach Bhikhari Naach

NR 2019
Oh that's bhanu

Bhanumathi Rao, in her younger days, was a dancer and a theatre actor. Today in her mid-nineties, she lives with her two daughters – Maya Krishna Rao, a contemporary solo theatre practitioner based in Delhi and Tara Rao, who works as human rights campaigner in Bengaluru. Bhanumathi, an elegant and witty woman, whose hearing and memory doesn’t usually stand up, has led an enigmatic, passionate, yet a simple and pragmatic life. Filming Bhanumathi in Delhi and Bengaluru, with her daughters nudging her, the filmmaker takes the audience on a journey of life and performance, through the spasms of memory, complexities of relationships, love and a reflection of what could constitute a beautiful mind.

Oh that's bhanu

NR 2019
Little Men

A short film that explores a space that is indifferent towards the queerness of being, in the midst of a crumbling, dilapidating neighbourhood. In this space, two men, who have a seemingly deep but incomprehensible bond, try to coexist seamlessly while making space to accept the inherent fluidity of human sexuality, for one another. As their exploration, of the 'queer' within, acts in sync with the space around them, their relationship goes through a silent but unrestrained struggle.

Little Men

NR 2019
The Women Weavers of Assam

The Women Weavers of Assam focuses on the craft, labour and the everyday lives of a group of women weavers in India’s northeastern state of Assam. The weavers belong to a non-profit collective called Tezpur District Mahila Samiti (TDMS), which was founded a century ago by women activists and Gandhian freedom fighters of Assam. The TDMS weavers preserve traditional motifs and methods of Assamese weaving, which have been declining since the introduction of mechanized cloth production in India. Montages of weaving blend with the weavers' accounts of their personal experiences, generating an evocative representation of the environment and the rhythms of TDMS, and the cultural significance of hand-weaving as a craft and industry in Assam.

The Women Weavers of Assam

NR 2019
The Unsung

The Unsung is a film on a dying tribe on the coastal region of Karnataka, the Halakki Vokkaliga. This once culturally rich tribe with a treasure trove of folk songs, passed down orally from generations is now grappling against the tide of modernisation and westernisation. With only a handful of old ladies who identify with the tribe, their traditions and cultures, the passing of these few old women will see their very culture fading away. The film touches on the struggles of the tribe, the clash between modernisation and their culture, the fight to keep their forests alive and the painstakingly long battle to be included in the Scheduled Tribe list in India.

The Unsung

NR 2019
Finding Moksha

This short experimental documentary follows two men in Varanasi, India, a woodcutter and a ceremonial haircutter as they go about their duties, preparing for a daily 3000-year-old Hindu cremation ceremony. Their lives exist in the shadows of processions of those passed on, cyclically making their way through the streets of Varanasi to the site where they are to be cremated. Through poetic editing and using minimal dialogue, this film offers a unique observational perspective on the Hindu experience of life and death.

Finding Moksha

NR 2019
Nongphadok Lakpa Atithi

Tamubi had determined not to visit her estranged husband. Not even once in their twelve years of separation. But one day, all against herself, she visits to attend her daughter’s wedding. She yielded to her daughter’s persistence. When she arrives the estranged couple did not exchange a single word. As night falls after the ceremony, Tamubi has no choice but to hold the night at her husband’s place. Reminiscence of the years gone by keep awake the separated husband and wife the whole night. The following day her husband pleads her to come back and start life anew. But Tamubi sticks to her independent conscience.

Nongphadok Lakpa Atithi

NR 2019
Peerun

Set in the vibrant world of mid-century Bombay 1940s is one of the few non-fiction stories from Manto's life in a Bombay chawl that revolves around Brij Mohan - Manto's roommate and Peerun - a Parsi girl. Brij comes up with a strange theory that he loses his job every time he meets Peerun and blames her for his unsuccessful career. Then why does he want to be with her despite facing extreme poverty? Why does Peerun want to be with him despite being in a relationship with someone else? Manto tries to find this out revealing his own direct and indirect relationships with the characters.

Peerun

NR 2019