Ankur Hooda

In a smog-choked village in Haryana, a retired professor turns to an outlawed ritual, crafting a calf doll from a stillborn's body, to save his cow from the urbanization slowly erasing his rural world.

Set in Mumbai, Usman Ka Radio is a story about a young man and his companion, a radio. But arrival of a tragic news from his village changes his perception about the radio for forever.

The age old tradition of making samadhi is a dying practice in modern Haryana. A sacred ritual which originated in north Indian villages is now facing the brunt of modern times.