Focus South Asia
India
Hindi, Kannada, Marathi
2023
100 mins
Asia Premiere
Festival History
Int'l Film Festival of Rotterdam
Int'l Film Festival of Independent Cinema OFF Camera, Krakow
New York Indian Film Festival (Best Screenplay)
Focus South Asia
India
Hindi, Kannada, Marathi
2023
100 mins
Asia Premiere
Festival History
Int'l Film Festival of Rotterdam
Int'l Film Festival of Independent Cinema OFF Camera, Krakow
New York Indian Film Festival (Best Screenplay)
In a small town riddled with territorial disputes between two linguistic communities, Raghu, a radicalized journalist, works for an online media that acts as a mouthpiece of an extremist leader. Raghu is strongly influenced by the leader’s words and believes that his community has been wronged. But when the line between his professional and personal life starts blurring, and Raghu is faced with some inconvenient truths, he chooses to be in denial and acts impulsively. Causing a deathly consequence, that makes him reflect back on a simpler time. A time when he was not a radicalized young gun, but a man who had not yet succumbed to the identity crisis perpetuated by a divided society.
Raghu Prakash
Donna Mushi
Harshad Nalawade
Harshad Nalawade
Saket Gyani
Maulik Sharma
Piyush Shah
Pranjal Gupta
Abhigyan Arora
Abhijeet Kalekar
Vinay Mishra
Maulik Sharma
Saket Gyani
Harshad Nalawade
Samyak Singh
Preety Ali
Pallavi Rohatgi
Raghavan Bharadwaj
Causality Films
Humaramovie Pvt. Ltd.
Harshad Nalawade
harshad.nalawade87@gmail.com
Harshad Nalawade is an Indian filmmaker from Belgaum, Karnataka. His debut feature film, Follower, is based on his own experiences of living as part of a linguistically marginalised community of the town. The film was partially crowdfunded and was selected for the NFDC Work-in-Progress Lab, 2021. A graduate of Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, he started his career in films by writing and directing short films while working as an assistant director. Harshad’s first short film, A Return Gift (2016), was nominated for Best Short at the New York Indian Film Festival 2016. His most recent work is Soup, a Netflix series directed by Abhishek Chaubey that Harshad co-created and co-wrote. He is currently developing his next feature.
