Aamer
Ajyal Competition
Amira Bhargava / Short Narrative / India / 2016 / 15 min / Colour / DCP
In Silent / Arabic, English subtitles
Interests: Disability, Family, Children
Synopsis
Aamer lives on the streets of Mumbai, where he makes a living selling garlands to people as they pass by in their cars. It’s a tough life, but Aamer works hard and is quite cheerful, never letting his hearing impairment get in the way of enjoying life. Then comes the day that his mother gives him a hearing aid, and a whole new world opens up for Aamer – a world that is loud, distressing and unpleasant.
About the Directors
Amira Bhargava was born in New Delhi. She moved to Mumbai in 2011, and has since worked as an assistant to eminent Indian filmmakers like Zoya Akhtar and Mira Nair. In 2016, Bhargava was nominated by Zoya Akhtar to direct a short film as part of a compilation of eight shorts. ‘Aamer' is her first film as a writer-director. She is currently writing a screenplay for a feature-length film.
Credits
- Director
- Amira Bhargava
- Screenwriter
- Amira Bhargava
- Producer
- Raghavan Bharadwaj, Pallavi Rohatgi, Preety Ali, Vinay Mishra
- Editor
- Shruti Bora
- Production Designer
- Shailaja Sharma
- Executive Producer
- Ananya Dasgupta
- Music
- Dhruv Viswanath
- Cinematographer
- Sachin S. Pillai
- Sound
- Ayush Ahuja
- Cast
- Pawan Manda Kale, Manjiri V. Pupala