JORAM

India
2023

Director: Devashish Makhija

Language: Hindi with English subtitles

Dasru and Vaano lead an anonymous life as migrant labourers on a Mumbai construction site with their infant daughter Joram. A brutal turn of events compels Dasru to cradle Joram into a sling and flee for the distant forests he had once run away from for answers, and survival. Soon he has Mumbai cop Ratnakar in hot pursuit. Torn between duty, systemic victimisation, and the gradual realisation of how he is probably just a helpless outsider to the inner machinations of “development at any cost”, Ratnakar finds himself shifting from pursuer to witness in a brutal endgame that seems like it may grind him to dust, like it must have thousands before him.

Screenings

22 July | 19:45 | Suncoast 6
28 July | 20:00 | Suncoast 6
TRAILER COMING SOON

Credits

Director

Devashish Makhija

Producer

ZEE Studios

Screenplay

Devashish Makhija

Cinematography

Piyush Puty

Cast

Manoj Bajpayee, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Smita Tambe, Megha Mathur

Runtime

134 min

Devashish Makhija

Devashish Makhija has written and directed the multiple award-winning short films 'Taandav', 'El'ayichi', 'Agli Baar' (And then they came for me), 'Rahim Murge pe matro' (Don’t cry for Rahim LeCock), 'Absent', ‘Happy’, 'Cycle' and 'Cheepatakadumpa'; and the full-length feature films 'Ajji' (Granny), 'Bhonsle' and the forthcoming 'Joram'. His short and feature films have competed and won awards at the international film festivals of Rotterdam, Gothenberg, Beaune, Black Nights, Busan, Glasgow, Tampere, MOMA, APSA, Barcelona, Singapore, amongst many others. He has also had a solo art show 'Occupying Silence'; written the bestselling children's books 'When Ali became Bajrangbali', 'Why Paploo was perplexed', 'We are the dancing forest', a Harper-Collinscollection of short stories 'Forgetting', the Neev Literature Award winning novel ‘Oonga’, and the forthcoming book of poems 'Bewilderness'. 'By/Two', a story by him from the Edgar Award nominated 'Mumbai Noir', has been adapted into a feature length film to be directed by him next year.
DIFF 2023

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