Amar Colony
Narrative Feature
Hindi
mins
75
Texas Premiere
In-Person, Virtual
2022
India
Drama
Amar Colony is a desperate tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy. The film is set in a small hill town in the lower Himalayas in India. Meera (20), a lonely pregnant woman is caught in a maze of desires and disappointments. Devki (45), a widow confined to a wheelchair, demands respect for her pigeon. Durga (60), a religious fanatic begins to experience delusions. When mundane lives of these three women intertwine in a lonely chawl in India, we encounter an existential underworld of raw impulses, desires and fears in this human wilderness with no respite and no resolution.
Special Jury Prize - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022
Best Debutant Director - International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) 2022
Recorded Q&A with Filmmaker Siddharth Chauhan
Writer / Director
Siddharth Chauhan
Siddharth Chauhan is a filmmaker based in Shimla/Mumbai. He has continuously taken his locally produced films to festivals in UK, US, Sarajevo, Belarus, Indonesia, New Zealand, Italy, China, Canada and France. His short film 'Pashi' won 6 International Awards including Best Director, Best Film, Audience Choice, Best Actor and Best Cinematography. Indie Film Magazine reviewed and called Pashi – 'India's Finest Short Film'. Amar Colony is Siddharth’s debut feature film.
Director:
Siddharth Chauhan
Producer:
Nisheeth Kumar
Writer:
Siddharth Chauhan
Cast:
Nimisha Nair Sangeeta Agrawal Usha Chauhan Deepak Sharma Aayush Srivastava Rohit Agrawal Sreejith Vijay Yash Thakur Jasleen Gulati Ishan Azad Anuj Sharma
Editor:
Paresh Kamdar
Crew:
Modhura Palit, Marc Marder, Susmit Bob Nath