FICTION.
KAKIDHA KANAVU (ENG: PAPER DREAMS)
Our last college project - My Graduation Film
A companion piece to "Fail-Safe" that places the central grifter
in a power struggle with Eswari (an ironing lady), grappling demonetization.
Can she bulldoze him into helping her and escape her situation, or does he get the better of her?
Starring: Srikar Srinidhi, Harini Kannan.
Crew: Rohit Shastri, Trisha Bhattacharya, Vani Kaul.
Title Design: Bhavin Vasavada, Harini Kannan
Wall Art: Tanya Singh
Music: Worms Cottage, Chris Joss
Special Thanks: Dwani Guru, Sarah Sunil.
STILLS FROM THE FILM
Sold as postcards during screenings
FAIL-SAFE
A resourceful man, stuck in a satire.
Our last-but final college project.
Starring: Srikar Srinidhi, Bhavin Vasavada, Bornil Anurag.
Music: Aaiye Meherban - O.P Nayyar; High Hat - Swing Republic
Hello Sunny - Johnny Ripper.
Special Thanks: Kewal Karia, Yash Kothari.
I LOVE YOU, DARLING
NYPS. Intra-college auditions. A verse. Typography. Joy.
Music:
Ilayaraja - Kaalam Kalamaaga (Punnagai Mannan);
A.R Rahman - Kadhalikkum Pennin (Kadhalan)
Special Thanks:
Drishti Desai, Nayantara Joseph, Nehal Vyas, Hoshedar Shroff
HEART-APPOINTMENT
Queen series, short #1
Two men - the first and last lovers of same woman
in her company's interview waiting room.
Music:
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust;
Yeh Dil Na Hota Bechara - S.D Burman;
Dave Grusin - The Firm OST.
Starring:
Hoshedar Shroff, Ashwin Gokhale, Sonali Agarwal, Swara Goswami.
Special Thanks: Nidhi Kulkarni, Aaditi Waghmare
RISE & SHINE
Queen series, short #2
Two men. A hall. Tension.
Music: Queen - Fat Bottom Girls; James Brown - I Feel Good.
Starring:
Hoshedar Shroff, Bhavin Vasavada
Special Thanks: Nidhi Kulkarni.
STRANDED
Morning. One floor. A single bathroom. Five individuals.
An exercise in silent spacial staging.
Music: Mark Knopfler - Wag The Dog OST
Old Lost John - Sonny Terry
Starring:
Siddharth Salgaonkar, Bhavin Vasavada, Kewal Karia,
Ashwin Gokhale, Shreya Madhogarhia.
Special Thanks: Nidhi Kulkarni, Yash Brahmbhatt.
KADAK
The rest of the world stayed in rapid movement, whilst my life
came to a sudden standstill.
Summer 2015 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and on set in Darjeeling,
West Bengal.
Music: The Imposter OST.
Special Thanks:
Sneha Ganesh, Sanjay Gupta, Sathya Reddy, Raghav Bapu,
Rupam Das, Lekha Edirisinghe.
TANYA SANG
A mural on the wall, wonderous music, fairy lights
and the lovely Tanya Singh.
What's not to like?
Music: All about that bass, Postmodern Jukebox.
(Gaffer: Umesh Deoraj)
DRYCIDE
A dead-simple narrative. One man.
A single setting.
A subtler 2nd cut.
Music: Jigarthanda OST, Santhosh Narayanan
In Collaboration with:
Aaditi Waghmare, Riya Kulkarni & Karthika Sakthivel.
170
A man in an office, his smartphone and a moody evening.
All in a not-so-distant future, He takes a 170 steps.
A photo series was done to complement the sequence.
Done in collaboration with: Hoshedar Shroff, Nidhi Kulkarni,
Riya Kulkarni & Sudhanshu Dabral.
Special Thanks: Pooja Chaudhary.
TWO-FOLD
A man wakes up to get dressed and leave.
Simple enough?
Add to it multiple outcomes, a non-linear narrative and
a visual motif and you have something truly unique.
LIGHTS, CAMERA. BULLET
Four individuals, a green screen, some personification
and a meta-climax.
Music: Jigarthanda OST, Santhosh Narayanan.
Made in collaboration with Ashwin Gokhale, Hoshedar Shroff
and Jaiwant Pradhan.
Special Thanks: Yash Brahmbhatt,
STUCK
A female character, an interior setting, a state of mind,
a social context and only pictures to do all of it justice.
A photo-piece, starring Nishita Nirmal.
Special Thanks: Hoshedar Shroff & Ujjwal Utkarsh.
A DAY IN THE LIVES
Two characters, a moment of fickle electricity
and a full minute of fiction.
The 2nd cut is more in tune with the silent era.
In Collaboration with: Hoshedar Shroff.