Different people, many traditions, one country. The Film celebrates the beauty of plural India through the genre of the road movie. Our heroes are ordinary people who undertake an extraordinary journey to satisfy their desire to know the unknown. The month-long bus journey with a set of vibrant and unique characters explores through their reactions the startling relationships between ancient India and present day India. As the bus journeys through the night, the morning mist and sometimes through rains, the Film captures the moving feast that is India. It reflects on ways in which India – this vast geographical entity – with so many languages, ethnic groups and cultural practices, holds together. What makes it work?  

An all women fatwa panel in Hyderabad, the first of its kind in the world, is issuing edicts on subjects ranging from make-up to menstruation. Disapproval from the Muslim orthodoxy notwithstanding, it’s a hit. What impact these pioneering changes might have for the reconstruction of contemporary India remains to be seen, but they are helping to subtly refashion structures of Indian Muslim religious authority, till now largely a male domain.

The story spins around two characters in today’s Gangtok – an old traditional thangka painter and one of his young students who is also intent on learning animation filmmaking.

The Filmmaker as a fellow painter tries to gauge the thangka painter’s own feelings about this time-old tradition and its journey – if at all – into the people’s psyche. On another hand, as exclusively a Comics artist, the Filmmaker wants to explore the inner world of the boy and to see how and to what extent there can be a possible convergence point of these two seemingly contrary ways of looking at/believing in things.

The story is woven like a tapestry of myriad beliefs and dreams of the present and the past. The  small atelier of the thangka painter encapsulates, frame by frame, the mysterious process of one time rolling into another.

Atul Bubna, 45, is an heir of a wealthy Marwadi family, hailing from the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan. His grandfather, Ratan, died at his age, after having settled his seven sons in an art deco building on the seaface of picturesque Marine Drive. Atul, the prodigal son, went through every possible vice in his youth to his current renunciation of family responsibilities after the death of his father. Atul, like India, is learning to walk again on the path to modernity with his luggage of traditions. On Marine Drive...

The film will expose the passionate language of women writers in Tamil literature from the Sangam to contemporary times who know where to situate their bodies, themselves and their poetry.

The Film will attempt to record the peculiar beat of the city of Calcutta across seasons, old and new rhythms.

The Film will document the changing geography of Nanguneri taluk in Tamil Nadu whose boundaries are being shadowed and redefined by an upcoming Special Economic Zone.

98 year old Kurak Pegu, has worked hard throughout his life to survive and sustain along with his family in flood prone Majuli in Assam. He knows that the Brahmaputra river has been both very kind and harsh at the same time towards him and life on the island as a whole. He knows this river inside out and believes that the wisdom of this traditional knowledge has all the strength to cope with all the odds of the nature. He is worried about the unpredictable weather changes – the monsoon becoming more erratic and floods more destructive.