Title of film : A Street Play
Director Name : Tanmaya Shekhar
Cast & crew :
Producer : Molshri,Tanmaya Shekhar
Editor : Sruthy Sukumaran
Cast :
Synopsis : Molshri and Shivang are best friends and members of a college street-theater group. While Molshri is a social justice warrior, always on the lookout to 'fix society', Shivang is secretly gay and struggles with his sexuality. The story begins when they are expelled from college for robbing the canteen. They beg, plead, and cry to get a second chance. Moved by their tears, the Dean offers them another chance. They need to do a community service project and help 5 children from an impoverished slum get educated. Thus begins a journey that changes their lives for ever. Nukkad Naatak makes a statement about what it means to be young in India. Through Molshri we see a young person's POV of Indian social issues while through Shivang we explore the life of a gay man in a conservative society.
Director Bio : Tanmaya Shekhar is a Mumbai-based filmmaker. He writes about personal and sociopolitical issues from a whimsical and imaginative point of view. He's made short films that have premiered at New York Indian Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner, and are streaming on Amazon Prime. His latest short 'Scenes from a Pandemic' is nominated for Best Film, Best Writer, Best Director at the Critics' Choice Awards India 2024. He wrote a climate-change script 'Fragrance', that won the Hollywood Climate Summit, sponsored by NBC Universal. Before Mumbai, he worked in New York City where he wrote a documentary Farmers for America (PBS, 2019) and worked in production of HBO shows (The Plot Against America, Love Life) and a film by Focus Features.
Filmography :
