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Screening history (select) and awards:
12th International Documentary and Short film festival of Kerala
Indian Documentary Festival of Bhubaneshwar
Oaxaca X
Mediterranean Film Festival of Cannes (Best Documentary Award)
SiGns Festival (Cinema Experimenta Award)
Kaifiyat (Documentary - 2019)
Kaifiyat (Documentary - 2019)
Kaifiyat is based on the syncretic nature of the tabla as a musical instrument and the playing style of Ustad Nizamuddin Khan (d.2000). It explores the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction through interspersing a narrator’s role as a storyteller or narration as a form of self-expression, or a narrative that delves in history and documenting reality as is. All of this within a rich soundscape of music and environmental rhythms. The tabla, much like Nizamuddin's style, developed in the courts of Indo-Islamic rulers of India. The film unfolds as a kaleidoscope, bringing together six sequences that weave a connection between several traditional Indian art forms, such as Indian classical music, Kathak dance and Indo-Persian miniature painting as well as glimpses of Nizamuddin and his family surviving the harsh socio-economic surroundings in the city of Mumbai.
Kaifiyat is a state of mind or mood induced in a person while experiencing a work of art.
Duration: 46 minutes
Cast and Crew:
Swar - Young Boy
Deepak - Brahman
Chand - Dervish
Aishwarya - Yogini
Shabbir - Turk
Elroy Pinto - Screenplay and Direction
Produced by
Elroy Pinto - co-producer
Sharmila Raut - co-producer
Music - Neela Bhagwat, Amol Ghode
Cinematographer - Elton Pinto
Editor - Swabha Pal
Art Directior - Sairandhri Raut
Art work - Fatima Zahra Hassan
Sound Department
SFX Editor - Sagnik Basu
Sound design - Udit Duseja
Screening history (select) and awards:
WORLD PREMIERE - South Asian Film Festival of Montreal 2025.
Samvega-Pasada (Short fiction) 2025
Samvega-Pasada (Short fiction) 2025
A contemporary adaptation of the epic of Manimekalai, Nirrti, a former sex worker lives in a working-class chawl in Mumbai. In her day-to-day life at the chawl, she encounters the familiar signs of old age, birth and death around her as she organizes against the real estate mafia and the landlords. Her spiritual awakening is one day put to the test when a group of orthodox seers come to the chawl. More details soon.
Duration: 30 minutes
Cast
Cast
Nirrti - Sanjukta Wagh
Ambapalli - Sadiya Siddiqui
Ambalika - Renuka Ankush Dhawale
Gabriel - Dhammrakshit Randive
Ascetics - Ashok Pandey
Crew
Crew
Script, Screenplay and Direction Elroy Pinto
DIALOGUES Swabha, Tanuj R, Dhammrakshit Randive, Elroy Pinto
ORIGINAL STORY Chithalai Chathanar
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Pramod
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Rounak Modha
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Naveen Lohara
EDITOR Swabha Pal
CHOREOGRAPHER Sanjukta Wagh
MUSIC Shwetant Kumar
COSTUME DESIGNER Marvin D’souza
STILLS & ASSISTANT CAMERA Elton Pinto
SYNC SOUND Satya Narayan
SOUND DESIGNER & FINAL MIX Raj Jadhav
DI & COLOURIST Eric Schoen
Original Songs composed and sung by Neela Bhagwat
Bombay Triptych - I (Documentary) 2025
Bombay Triptych - I (Documentary) 2025
Bombay Triptych reflects on the nature of the Indo-Catholic visual culture of Bombay through encounters with the artists in the spaces and materials they work with. The first part analyses the form of labour involved in the creation process of religious figurines, statues and new churches through a meeting with Sr. Vimala a nun and sacred artist based in Bombay working in a variety of mediums but particularly with architecture, stained glass, fibreglass and terracotta. Scheduled for 2025. I directed and edited the work.
Soyara by Yalgaar Collective - Music video
Soyara by Yalgaar Collective - Music video
A music video directed for the radical Ambedkarite group - Yalgaar Sanskrutik Manch. The song is based on poetry by Nissar. Gann Soyara translates to Labour. My work for it included conceptualising, writing the screenplay and directing the work.
Documentation work
Documentation work
Where the Alders Grow (2023)
Where the Alders Grow (2023)
A commissioned video documentation of the after school programs that Arts Etobicoke, a local arts service organisation runs for its migrant heavy neighborhood.
Winter Windows
Winter Windows
A commissioned video documentation of the Winter Windows project that Arts Etobicoke, a local arts service organisation ran for local businesses and independent artists from the neighborhood.
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