The Isle

Was the only official entry from India for the Oscar awards at Los Angeles in the shorts section-in 2003 -it competed in the honorary foreign film category. The short film “Notes On Her” inspired by Mahashweta devi's 'DRAUPADI AND BASHAI TUDU'. - is about a journalist’s memory of a rebel called Dopdi who never seems to die. It’s an experimental film not following a strict narrative structure and is highly visual with a complimenting sound track which enhances the film’s dark atmosphere. The film was shot in black and white and printed on color to achieve the dark, high contrast, gritty images.

Rustom works in a small government office in the countryside. Life for Rustom is wandering from place to place in the small town, spending time with Kapil who works on the suburban trains, living with the eccentricities of his boss, and being magically transported into his imaginary other world in the far reaches of this beautiful and lonely countryside which maybe undergoing a quiet upheaval that may disturb it's dark and mysterious worlds forever.

The Solitary Sandpiper” explores a certain state of mind. It’s the human need for inner freedom. The individual caught in an age of alienation. and the longing for nature and the wilderness. A desire for liberation from the pace of modern day life. The search for which leads the central character into the other dimension, which is also perhaps her own spiritual catharsis and rejuvenation. The Solitary Sandpiper was screened at The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival