Description
Cinematographer 's Note - A tourism film quintessentially demands stunning visuals. The Director's brief was to not focus on stunning visuals but a visual poetry. Instead of presenting Madhya Pradesh as a catalogue of monuments and landscapes, we approached it as an emotional space. A place that holds memory, stillness and depth. When we travelled through MP during prep, what struck us wasn’t grandeur, but the stillness. There’s a quiet confidence in the state. It doesn’t demand attention. It holds space. So, the direction was built around restraint. I chose to shoot Anoushka in transitional spaces. with natural lighting. Corridors, ghats, open fields, symbolic of the in-between space of belonging. As someone who has lived across continents, her relationship with India is layered, and I wanted that complexity to remain intact. For me, this film became less about showcasing a destination and more about documenting a conversation between an artist and a landscape.
