General Information
Completed On: 20 Jan, 2021
Duration: 9 min 59 sec
Genres: Documentary
Language: Hindi, English
Country: India
Submitted By: Debashish Kumar
Festival Rating 8.5
Divyanshu and Rahul Batra, 21 and 18 year old boys from a North Indian town called Dehradun are on a mission! Having experienced a heartbreak during the lockdown, they opened the 'Dil Tuta Aashiq Chaiwala' (The Heartbroken Lover Tea Shop) which they see as "more than a business - a platform for the heartbroken". Through them as focal points, the film tries to get a glimpse into the politics and performance of masculinities that shape love, romance and heartbreak in a tier-two Indian city like Dehradun. This is their world of PUB-G and reels, you tube and influencers, gym and cafe cultures that construct their ideas of love and intimacy, during the corona-enforced lockdown and beyond. The film hopes to be a light-hearted comment on how young boys from urban and semi-urban contexts draw upon a whole world of pop culture resources to deal with matters of the heart.
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DirectorsRidhima Sharma
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ProducersDebashish Kumar
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CinematographerDebashish Kumar
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EditorNavtika Sharma
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Sound DesignerJivan Bhange
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Film TypeDocumentary
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GenresCovid-19 film
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Runtime9 minutes 59 seconds
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Completion Date20 Jan, 2021
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Production Budget1000 USD
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Country of OriginIndia
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Country of FilmingIndia
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Film LanguageHindi, English
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Shooting Format
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Aspect Ratio16:9
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectYes
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First-time FilmmakerYes
PSBT Covid-19 Filmmaking Competition
India
Delhi
03/15/2021
Indian Premiere
Winner: Fur Lotus Gold
Director's Biography
Ridhima Sharma is an incoming PhD scholar at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto and recipient of the Connaught Fellowship. She completed her MPhil titled ‘Rethinking the Cow Protection Movement: Gender, Caste and Labour at a Gaushala in Contemporary Haryana’ at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has taught as Visiting Faculty at Savitribai Phule Pune University and Flame University, Pune. Her research interests include anthropology of religion, feminist theory and methodology, caste and brahminism, nationalism, ethnography, oral Histories, sexuality studies and ethnographic filmmaking. Her recent publications include her contributions in the edited volume Mapping India: Transitions and Transformations 18th-19th century by Routledge (2019) and Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India by Sage (2020). She has (co)made two documentaries, HerStories and Kaaye Kaaye Sexual both of which have been screened and have won various awards at national and international film festivals. More recently, she directed two films, Aas Ki Kiran (A Ray of Hope) and Dil Tuta Aashiq (The Heartbroken Lover) that deal with various aspects of the pandemic. Dil Tuta Aashiq was awarded the Gold Best Film Award (Amateur Category) by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT).