Tricity filmmakers script a new cinematic language

In some quiet corners of Mohali and Chandigarh, far from Bollywood’s spectacle-driven studios and glossy PR machines, a quiet revolution is underway. A new generation of fiercely independent storytellers — filmmakers, theatre artistes, colourists, and guerrilla crews -— is crafting a distinct cinematic language. Working with borrowed cameras, local actors, and micro-budgets, they are reclaiming cinema as a medium of meaning: personal, political, and unvarnished.

At the heart of this movement are five emerging production houses -— Nazariya Productions, Beans Media, Colorkaar, Tranza Studios, and Vinkal Studios — and one filmmaker who has already made global ripples: Anmol Sidhu.

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