Savitha Sastry

Eresha, an acclaimed classical dancer, has spent decades building Aalayam, an arts institution shaped by her discipline and authority. The arrival of Anvesha, a young exchange student, unsettles the carefully ordered world she has created. As Eresha finds herself drawn into an unrequited love she cannot contain, the boundaries between teacher and student, art and desire, authority and vulnerability begin to shift. Set against the world of Indian classical dance, A Song for Eresha features an almost all-woman cast and more than a hundred classical dancers from across India.

A trailblazing Bharatanatyam dancer rejects the art form's rigid mythological traditions to pioneer contemporary storytelling, enduring backlash from purists but forging her own path to inner truth and peace. The second short film in AK Srikanth's Colors Trilogy.

The first in AK Srikanth's Colors Trilogy, Green follows the life of a woman caught between the mundane-ness of her family and her dreams of being a dancer.

In this final short film of AK Srikanth's Colors Trilogy, an octogenarian rebel reflects on her thrice-interrupted life of defiance across youth, middle age, and senescence, in a dystopian regime that imprisons women who outshine men.