Eventive
Virtual May 2 - 4, 2025
Turup
India | Narrative Feature
2017 | 72 mins | Hindi
In the neighbourhood, chess is a popular pastime with roadside games bringing together men from different strata. Their pawns include morality and religion, causing social and political tensions to erupt when a tournament gets underway. But the men are only the most visible players.
Against this simmering backdrop, a domestic worker with a secret hobby, a young woman in love and a former journalist struggling with married
life must make their moves with care. When caste, class, religion and gender come into play, there are boundaries to be negotiated, and the very rules of the game stand challenged.
Restoration Process
About the Artist
Ektara Collective is an independent, autonomous, non-funded group of people who seek to combine creative efforts and imagination and collaborate with trained and untrained people to make films that are content wise and aesthetically located in people’s subjective, contextual realities and experiences. Through this process, Ektara has made and produced 2 short fiction films earlier (Chanda Ke Joote, 22mins, 2011; Jaadui Machchi, 38mins, 2013). This is our first fiction feature film.
Trailer
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Credits
Moulina Midde
Anil Singh
Madhu Bhagat
Syed Saim Ali
Nidhi Qazi
Hariram Darshyamkar
Aakash Jhamra
Kuldeep Arakka
Sheela Rawat
Abhinav Kumar
Deepak Nema
Hasanuddin
Madhu Dhurve,
Geeta Dhrve
Preeti Jagat
Bali Jagat
Neelam Borkar
Seema Deshmukh
Pushpa Yadav
Tushar Pawar
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This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
