Sraiyanti HARICHARAN
Korean Premiere
While the protagonists and I met with the intention of making this film, we have, during the course of filming, become close friends and allies. A one-and-a-half year long relationship has only strengthened post the completion of the film. I consider this film a collaboration of ideas between Mohana, Leela Rani and myself. The way in which all three of our ideas aligned felt to me like they were co-directing the film with me. And in a sense, this becomes the undeniable truth when we get intimately close to the lived experience of another human being, especially those we strongly relate to. Their story could not have been written without the presence of their own authorship.
Sraiyanti Haricharan (b.1993) is a cinematographer and director whose work blurs the line between observation and storytelling. Trained in cinematography, she brings a visual sensitivity shaped by her background in design and her roots in Tamil Nadu, where film and politics have long intersected. Shaped by the rise of authoritarian politics in India, her work sits at the intersections of caste, class, and gender.