Pehchaan | Short Film Nominee

Short Film Nominee November 29, 2019

Pehchaan

By Jayant Gupta with 6

drama · Short Films · hindi

The short film invokes a conversation around the plight of ordinary citizens in a country like India which is drowning in red-tapism and bureaucracy. As an old man struggles to get official work done from a police station, he raises the overarching question - what is his identity?

The film uses poetry as a significant tool to further drive this question home. While the forefathers of independent India might have had a particular reality in mind for the nation, why are we still far from it?
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