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Sthalpuran- Chronicle of Space

Slow-paced and full of wistful beauty, Akshay Indikar’s film tells a tender tale of an eight-year-old boy coping with change and loss.

Eight-year-old Dighu is finding it hard to adjust to life in his grandparents’ village at the Konkani coast. Along with his mother and older sister, he recently moved here from Pune. Above all he misses his father, who has disappeared seemingly without a trace. Dighu‘s sister does not know what happened to him either, and has given up asking the grown-ups about it. It is only in his diary and through his imagination that Dighu finds solace from loneliness and grief. Slow-paced and full of wistful beauty, Akshay Indikar’s film tells a tender tale of coping with change and loss with a great performance of Neel Deshmukh as Dighu.

• Director and script: Akshay Indikar • India 2020 • 86 Min • Marathi with English subtitles • Cast: Neel Deshmukh, Anushree Wani, Rekha Thakur, Shrikant Patil