The film offers glimpses into the lives of Assistant Directors in an attempt to understand their role in the film making process. How some have realised their dreams whereas most are driven to the point of despair.
The film examines the impact of the recent deluge of 'entertaining' and 'investigative' television news, how the news content is received by the viewers in an attempt to understand what is 'responsible news' in the Indian context.
A series of two short Films.
CERTIFIED UNIVERSAL by Avjit Mukul Kishore
An impressionistic sketch of 'the public' as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself.
DO RAFIQUE by Rafeeq Ellias
Rafeeq meets Rafique Bagdadi, an extraordinary living archive of the city and its cinema, and explores the cinema city through him.
A series of two short Films.
HAVE YOU DREAMT CINEMA? by Hansa Thapliyal
A cinema theatre in a suburb of cinema city, is pulled down. Three women, who live in that suburb, reflect on their various relationships with that fantasy of a film in a darkened theatre. Was it ever theirs'?
DHANANJAY KULKARNI 'CHANDRAGUPT' by Rrivu Laha
A journey of migrants to the dream city through the tract of filmi aspiration.