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confront the truth of their marriage, without the masks.
Even as the couple tries to get to the heart of the matter, they find the big questions of their lives beyond their grasp. They are two people, isolated in a house in the hills, preparing for the harsh Himalayan winter, trying to find themselves one last time.
This film was an opportunity to explore a corner of our world that never makes it onto screen. The people we don’t normally notice. The people who are always at the edges of the family photograph. Except we know these people. They are our aunts and uncles. They are our parents. They are our grandparents. We will become them.
It was an opportunity to examine an existential crisis: The unraveling of the idea of the ideal Indian marriage all of us are familiar with.
The Threshold
India | Narrative Feature
2015 | 87 mins | Hindi,English
The Threshold details one day in the life of a couple who have been married over two decades.
On this day, the day after their newly married son, and the guests from his wedding party, have left, the wife informs her husband that she is leaving him. For good.
Presented with this fait accompli, two people on the verge of an idyllic retirement are forced to
About the Artist
Pushan Kriplani is a cinematographer and a theater director. He graduated with a degree in English literature and earned his Master’s in Film and TV production from the University of Bristol, with a sprecialization in Cinematography.
He has worked on over thirty productions for the stage and for the radio, in capacities ranging from director to actor to designer, musician and producer. He is a founder member of the industrial theater co. As a cinematograpger, he has filmed several features, as well as commercials, documentaries and shorts, working with Shyam Benegal, Ram Madhvani and Zafar Hai, amongst others, as well as for National Geographic, Discovery and the BBC.
He has also directed six documentary shorts. He lives and works in Mumbai, India. This is his first feature film as director.
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Credits
Director:
Pushan Kriplani
Writer:
Nihaarika Negi
with
Neena Gupta
Rajit Kapur
Pushan Kriplani
Producer(s):
Vishal Dhandhia
Akshat Shah
Film Editor:
Pradip Patil
Neena Gupta
Rajit Kapur
Dhanendra Kawade