Alaka, a middle-aged woman in rural Assam, is confronted by the return of her queer husband after several years, whether real or a dream in its entirety, forcing her to face the unresolved pain of their fractured relationship while grappling with her own emotional survival.
The passage from adolescence to youth is a phase during which a girl emerges in a distinctive period of her life to another significant phase. Most often there is a synchronous transition in her physical state with that of her emotional state of mind. This film poignantly depicts such a transition in a girl's life. Her changing attitudes towards her playmates, and objects around are brought out very vividly in this film.
The journey of news coming alive, when an athlete featured on the front page falls in love with a tennis starlet featured on the last page of a newspaper.
These poor people find that their lives, hopes, desires and even dreams are ruled by the powerful. They are deprived of their natural spontaneity and thought process. As a consequence, the victim's action and reaction is programmed and they are performed mechanically as a ritual. In this film, a family of three falls victim to a middle-aged officer, who controls their lives. The woman is thrown in prison, the man becomes a toy in the hands of the officer and their child looks on innocently.
The film is about a young boy who has just finished graduation and is waiting for the result of a competitive examination. He is quite sure about getting through the examination, but his mother generally grumbles and assumes that her son is not capable of doing anything in this world. Discouraged and fed up with all this, he goes to his college and meets his girlfriend. He does not want to lose these moments. One fine morning he is awakened by the excited voice of his mother informing him that he has been selected in the competitive examination!
The film looks into the inner layers of the mind and heart of a young man who has loved a girl but has lately developed some sort of misunderstanding with her. Inspite of the youthful love and affection they have had for each other, the girl suddenly refuses to meet him anymore. The boy is at a loss to understand why.
A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave in his office. A third finishes his tea. Another gets himself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in the world of crime: kidnapping to be more precise. But the father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up. The son has already played this trick before and collected good ransom. The father does not believe this time it is a real thing; The kidnappers get desperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.
The cinema hall as a liminal space during a matinee show, and the experience it evokes.
An exploration of the interconnected experiences of queerness and illness, this film navigates personal and collective journeys through medical spaces, sexual violence, and survival, displays the profound impact on body and identity.
The protagonist is a young man staying in a city. He is sensitive, melancholy and a dreamer. He is unable to communicate his feelings to the woman he loves. Everything seems to have been entangled in a mesh, irrespective of these characters. He cannot even differentiate between his capability to love and his passionate desires which have been repressed. That is how he is confused and with his ideals and morality he is living outside his own time and inevitably suffering. His self criticism is endless. He dreams about whatever he lacks and about his ideals. The dreams have led him to the domain of non-communication. His repressed passion along with his self criticism has made him bored with life. Now at every point he expects something exceptional.
A young man's body is overtaken by an undefined itching fever, leading his parents to seek healing.
When a watchman finds a half-burned Japanese letter in Pune’s Okayama Friendship Garden, it unlocks hidden conversations on fleeting friendships, shifting media, and life’s uncertainties.
The documentary film is about the Film and Television Institute of India including the views expressed by students, staff and Ex-Director Shri Jagat Murari. The filmmakers from the institute are 'Rays of Hope' for the alternative or New Indian Cinema.
Munshi ji, a lover of Urdu wants his daughter to marry a person who knows Urdu. His neighbour who arranges the marriage dupes Munshi Ji who inspite of doubts at the time of the ceremony allows the marriage to be solemnised. Later, when these doubts are confirmed Munshi Ji vows to settle scores with his neighbour.
A hero stuck in an ancient cycle of death and rebirth unknowingly cheats his destiny.
Diploma film of Jahnu Barua.
An old crowded chawl in the heart of Pune city. Managed by a stern landlady, it houses among others, an old man who has no family and is on the verge of becoming senile. He is all alone and the people around him don’t seem to care much. Caught in a time warp, he is slowly losing touch with reality. As time stops for him, for the rest of them life goes on.
A young man grapples with the weight of ancestral traditions and expectations, as he endures both physical and emotional trials imposed by his grandfather.
During an overnight bus journey, two passengers confide in each other and share their memory of a woman who affected their lives in different ways.
The third bell goes, the curtain rolls up and the play has begun. Before this could happen, there is the complicated effort by the group to make the play a reality. The film is a reconstruction of the genesis of a play put up by amateur artists of the Progressive Dramatic Association, Pune. It shows the herculean effort which goes into the making of an amateur theatrical production.
