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A street child obsessed with a heroine on a film poster, grapples with his burgeoning sexuality as he stands on the precipice of impending manhood. While selling flowers on the streets of Mumbai he orchestrates encounters with a number of women in order to collect valuables that have a special significance and relationship to his paper goddess. A girl’s perfume, a woman’s ring, a look or a feel enable him to transform the paper heroine of his fantasies into sensations more tangible. His child-like innocence is slowly erased.

Subject: Childhood, Desire, Gender, Sexuality, Fiction

Awards and Screenings

Awards:
Focus Dialogue Prize - 2009 - Sehsuchte, The 38th International Student & Amateur Film Festival, Germany
Special Jury Prize - 2006 - 24x7: Making Movies, India

Official Selection:
Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Festival, USA - 2009
Baltimore Women’s Films Festival, USA - 2009
Ahmedabad International Film Festival, India - 2009

Producer

Neha Raheja Thakker

Creative Crew

Camera: Tapan Vyas / Editing: Saif Azmi / Neha Raheja Thakker / Sound: Francis Gigool / Music: Sunil Thakkar / Actors: Ansar Mohammed Sheikh, Azhar Sheikh, Hema Khan, Pranita Rajan, Sunny, Dimple

Territory: WORLD

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