THE TRAPPER’S SNARE is the spiritual journey of a young boy who escapes his fate as a bird trapper, only to be caught in the snare of life. A large part of the film is set in a traditional theravada Buddhist monastery.
In a culture where beauty, delicacy, refinement and submission are the prized traits to the ultimate feminine career fulfillment, marriage, young Muslim girls learn boxing at a little club run by Jamil Islam, former boxer, in Kiddirpur, Kolkata.
The Trapper’s Snare , a project by Shanker Raman who shot films like Peepli Live, Patang and Frozen won a grant of 30,000 CHF (Swiss Franc) at the Locarno Open Doors. The awards for the 2011 Open Doors co-production lab were announced on Tuesday. The Trapper’s Snare is the spiritual journey of a young boy who [...]
My project AHARBAL FALLS is a love story where the lovers think that in order for them to stay together they must kill all the opposition. How they love, kill and manage to stay free propels the narrative flow of the film. The violence they unleash, believe in and take pleasure from is a reflection of the violence that they have internalized over two decades of violent conflict in Kashmir which is also, a metaphor for a freedom fighter’s existential justification for killing for a noble cause such as freedom.
Rubel dreams to join a school across the river. And live in the mainland where cars move on gas and electric lamps burn much brighter.
I travel with Rubel to the cracking edge of the island. Will Char erode too? This is what my project CHAR, THE ISLAND WITHIN which is under production now, is about.
Thread is a fairy tale exploring the extraordinary relationship of two young girls who are both the seamstress and the contortionists of an Indian circus, two beings which seem to form one and who are slowly moving apart till one of them decides to sew herself to her partner to avoid losing her.
Sunrise tells the universal story of the loss of a child, of parental grief. The protagonist, Joshi, distressed by the disappearance of his little daughter, takes us into his dreams, nightmares and memories. He errs in the streets of Mumbai chasing an elusive figure that steals the children. The film approaches the taboo subject of child trafficking and abuse.
When the rains come to Mumbai, they transform the city. Water, in all its avatars, is the impulsive force of the film. Against its immense power nothing can remain unchanged. Not even great, big, modern cities like Mumbai. The film is really about this struggle between the unbending and the unpredictable.
My project Jat Panchayat is about social systems, judicial systems; basically about power systems that govern human life. Above all, it’s about human nature. Every system consists of its rules and regulations, which are at variance from group to group. Yet power structures operate in the same inhuman, dispassionate manner.
My latest project SAMAADHI (THE PENANCE) is an elevated genre film – a truly Indian horror film that also plays as a family drama.
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