Affliction

Affliction

Affliction

2025 · 5 min

9-year-old Bittu battles a mysterious fever, an affliction that deepens with an unfamiliar stirring within him as he watches his uncle’s young wife, Kusum, longing for a husband who toils far from home.

Directed by Shubham Sumit · Written by Shubham Sumit

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