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Recap

Dug Dug

India

Hindi, Marwari

2021

102 mins

Festival History

Toronto Int’l Film Festival | Calgary Int’l Film Festival | Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival | Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles | London Indian Film Festival | Indian Film Festival Stuttgart

Recap

Dug Dug

India

Hindi, Marwari

2021

102 mins

Festival History

Toronto Int’l Film Festival | Calgary Int’l Film Festival | Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival | Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles | London Indian Film Festival | Indian Film Festival Stuttgart

Thakur, a 40-year-old alcoholic, riding his bike on a highway one night, dies a gruesome death. The next morning, his bike disappears from the police station, and found at the spot where Thakur died. More bizarre incidents follow. The villagers declare Thakur has become a god and start offering alcohol, his favourite, to his bike. Miraculously, their prayers are answered. The news spreads and before long, a commercialised religion is in place.

Credits

Lead Cast

Altaf Khan; Gaurav Soni; Yogendra Singh Parmar; Durga Lal Saini

Writer

Ritwik Pareek

Director of Photography

Aditya S Kumar

Editor

Bijith Bala

Sound Designer

Siddharth Dubey

Music Director

Salvage Audio Collective

Production Designer

Ranjit Singh

Costume Designer

Kevin Koshy Matthews

Producer/s

Prerna Pareek; Ritwik Pareek

Production Company/ies

Bottle Rocket Pictures

Contact


Rights Holder

Ritwik Pareek

ritwikpareek@gmail.com


Director

Ritwik Pareek

Ritwik Pareek is a film-maker, writer and an illustrator based in Mumbai. Being born and raised in the heritage city of Jaipur, India, he always loved folktales. He has a way with words while retelling the stories he has heard and always strives to make his characters more intimate. He loves illustrating, has a knack for aesthetics and appreciates art in all its forms. He started his career in advertising as an art director at, Ogilvy & Mather, and has worked on several international award winning ad campaigns. After a year, he left the agency to pursue his career as a film- maker. Ritwik has a strong drive for visual storytelling and loves visual poetry that leaves a strong emotional impact on the audience. He worships IMAX screens. He believes in creating his own detailed world in movies and wants to explore all the film genres. He wants to create a harmony, a melody of art and music in his films and believes in showing a strong perspective in movies. He aspires to make a film like Roma one day wherein he wants to be his own cinematographer.