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Changing Landscape

The documentary film focuses on the plight of the wetlands near Tamil Nadu’s Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary, a 30-acre state bird santuary which is getting ruined by stone quarrying. People have been protesting against the stone quarrying stating it is harming the ecology and how it is affecting them and the wetlands for more than 18 years. But regardless of that, their farmlands are getting seized gradually by power and violence raising ecological fears that are deteriorating conditions as a result.

Changing Landscape

NR 2023
The House of Baruas

On the eastern side of Guwahati’s historic Latasil playground stands an iconic Assamese house that completes a century of existence in 2023. Constructed by engineer Chandranath Barua, this house has been home to some of Assam’s most famous icons, such as filmmaker-actor-musician Brajen Barua, filmmaker-footballer-flautist-painter Nip Barua, singer-turned-composer Ramen Barua, filmmaker Dibon Barua, cricketer-turned-singer Dwipen Barua, cricketer-pilot-entrepreneur-politician Girin Barua and radio broadcaster Niren Barua. The Baruas are surely the only family in Assam, and perhaps in the entire India, that have produced so many noted personalities in fields as diverse as cinema, music, sports and politics. This is the story of ‘The House of Baruas’, reconstructed through memories, archival film clips and photographs. A house that is now facing an uncertain future.

The House of Baruas

NR 2023
In The Forest One Thing Can Look Like Another

In The Forest One Thing Can Look Like Another is constructed through the director’s personal experience of living in the remote Himalayan mountain town of Manali, a historically popular destination for shooting Bollywood film songs. The glacial landscape of Manali has become a site where projections of the idyllic countryside are directed — rife with tropes of adventure, eroticism and romance. The work interrogates this thin layer of narrative practices, constructing tableaus of high-altitude mountains as static objects and backdrops for second-hand urban aspirations to happiness, while the precarious reality of living in a highly sensitive ecosystem spins an adventure far removed from most imaginaries.

In The Forest One Thing Can Look Like Another

NR 2023
The Agreement

In the grand narrative of the Partition of Punjab in 1947, Iqraar-naama is a film about the 'refugee', 'migrant', 'displaced person' as the protagonist of his own story. Told through a collection of documents from the personal archive of Charandas Bangia, a Partition refugee from Lyallpur, Pakistan who finally settled in Amritsar, India. The documents preserved carefully for over 90 years set the stage for history to unfold. The film decenters historical narratives from the state to the citizen, from state archives to personal archive, looking at history from the perspective of those who experience it. Using documents, photographs, drawings, text and interviews, the film hangs on a series of dialogues between the state, citizen, allotment officers, ministry of relief and rehabilitation and other such sundry characters encountered in the history of the Partition of Punjab (1947).

The Agreement

NR 2023
Knotted

The constant ricocheting between hopelessness and optimism continues to contaminate the ordinariness of the everyday. Barretto focuses on the aftermath of her father having been diagnosed with Depression and Bipolar disorder some years prior. In the early years her mother had taken on the role of being the primary caregiver and thereby also taken on the burden of shielding others in the family from the fallout of this illness. But now having grown up, the responsibility of caring is expected to be shifted on to the daughter, the only other woman in the family.

Knotted

NR 2023
Behrupiya - The Impersonator

An impersonator also known as ‘Behrupiya’ amuses the locals by impersonating well-known movie characters. One day, while performing one of his acts, Behrupiya meets with an accident that brings his life to a complete halt. Despite this setback, the young kids in the village who looked up to him as an idol refuse to give up on him and offer their support. The story explores the themes of resilience, determination, and the importance of community support. The accident that Behrupiya faces has a symbolic significance, representing the challenges and obstacles that can arise in life. However, the fact that the village's young children rally around him and offer their support shows that even in the face of adversity, hope and encouragement can come from unexpected places. The story is a poignant exploration of the power of human connection and the resilience of the human spirit.

Behrupiya - The Impersonator

NR 2023
The Landscape of Sanatoriums

This experimental video essay explores the space and time of a post-colonial hill station set up by the British as a sanatorium for therapeutic recovery from the heat and humidity of India. Invoking the closing sequences of Ritwik Ghatak’s film, Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star) (1960), the film explores how mountains became a metaphor not just for malaise and affliction, but also the human will to survive in the corridors of a creaky healthcare system. Framed through fissures in the dark, derelict walls of a once glorious cinema hall in Darjeeling, the events within turn, hang in liquid suspension. The same landscape becomes a haven for the tourist-turned-environmental-refugee who crawls up the winding mountainside in summer, fleeing the furnace of the Indian plains. But the haven itself is occupied by giant pile drivers pounding steel into the industrial night.

The Landscape of Sanatoriums

NR 2023