The Azim Premji Foundation, best known for its work in education and health, is turning to cinema as another way of engaging with Indian society, bringing filmmakers, including Shaunak Sen and Varun Grover, into a new film initiative focused on socially conscious storytelling.
In another, an atheistic, no-nonsense surgeon faces an ethical dilemma when a dying patient’s final wish requires him to read verses from a religious scripture.
Elsewhere, the line between work and home blurs for a community health worker with an autistic daughter, while a group of girls from difficult backgrounds find liberation through football.
These four shorts — two fiction films and two documentaries — Kambakhat by Varun Grover, The Last Rites by Zoya Parvin, Laiba Ka Ghar by Archana Phadke and Khelne Chalogi?
by Garima Sadhwani — played as a package at the recently concluded Bengaluru International Short Film Festival (BISFF) at Suchitra Film Society, the more-than-50-year-old film club.
The Azim Premji Foundation, best known for its work in education and health, is turning to cinema as another way of engaging with Indian society, bringing filmmakers, including Shaunak Sen and Varun Grover, into a new film initiative focused on socially conscious storytelling.
The films it has backed are varied. In one, fans of a forgotten thumri singer raise money for her treatment at a government hospital on the condition that she does an encore of her iconic performance from decades ago at a concert with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. In another, an atheistic, no-nonsense surgeon faces an ethical dilemma when a dying patient’s final wish requires him to read verses from a religious scripture. Elsewhere, the line between work and home blurs for a community health worker with an autistic daughter, while a group of girls from difficult backgrounds find liberation through football.
These four shorts — two fiction films and two documentaries — Kambakhat by Varun Grover, The Last Rites by Zoya Parvin, Laiba Ka Ghar by Archana Phadke and Khelne Chalogi? by Garima Sadhwani — played as a package at the recently concluded Bengaluru International Short Film Festival (BISFF) at Suchitra Film Society, the more-than-50-year-old film club.
