TANK
8 part hour-long Political Drama
Pramila, a cotton farmer and water activist fights against the illegal tanker mafia in India, who have deprived her town of drinking water, while Kavya, a young journalist discovers the large web that keeps it afloat.
Pramila is a water activist who lives with her young daughter in a small village on the outskirts of Delhi. Pramila doesn’t agree with the unjust and illegal water practices around her but can’t do anything about it until she becomes the poster girl for organizations and MNCs raising awareness on the water crisis and illegal tankers who provide water to the rich for exorbitant prices, leaving no water for the desperately poor.
Kavya is a young journalist trying to make her mark in the world and feels she can contribute by exposing everything that’s going wrong in the world around her. She comes from a privileged background and will go to any extent to get what she needs, even if that means pushing people away.
When Pramila and Kavya's paths cross at a chance documentary shoot, the two come together, trying to seek the best for themselves, selfishly pulling the other along the deep maze of the tanker mafia.
BINNY ON THE SECOND FLOOR
Feature-length Drama
When a high-strung octogenarian is forced to shack up with a wide-eyed Indian boy in the midst of selling his flat, he learns to confront his past and what the future holds.
When 23 year old Jason Varkey struggles to find housing in London while desperately trying to find his footing in a career, he moves into 83 year old Binny Ghosh's flat just as Binny’s neighbours are pushing Binny to sell the flat so a developer can it over. As Jason gets to know Binny, he contemplates where his future is going and Binny looks back at his life and what he’s carrying from his past. The story explores themes of existential dread, multiculturalism, immigration and how far we go to hide from our true selves.
ROOM 19
10 part hour long Comedy Series
Genre: Dramedy, Coming-of-Age, Black Comedy
Traversing the lives of a group of students in a liberal arts college, Room 19 shows us their stories in preparing for a changing India and the scary world outside the college Bubble through absurd and hilarious situations in this coming of age story.
Swimming through the mucky waters of college, and understanding life in their turbulent late teens, and early 20s, a group of friends find themselves through the lived experiences they share, getting by, obviously, with a little help from their friends.
Room 19 is a story about the coming together of these 7 friends in their final residential years of college, experiencing the changing landscape that is life as they get ready to enter the real world. The male and female hostel rooms become recurring spaces within the show, to showcase the lives of our central characters in order to exemplify what college is, and the many different successful ways of living and growing up together.
It is a show about sab kuch college and about sab kuch ordinary being transformed into something extraordinary—through our characters and their relationships with each other and the world around them.
There are no easy “heroes” and “villains” in this show – the friends are neither confined to, nor defined by stereotypes, yet what makes them stand out is their largely idealistic, very human student personalities from different backgrounds, with different interests, passions, tastes, beliefs, and goals for the future.
WATERFRONT
8 part hour long Dramatic Series
Genre: Crime, Policial, Thriller
In the early 80s, A young man escapes from his impoverished and stagnant village life to strive for a comfortable and secure future in the city but circumstances get him involved with the looming underworld in Mumbai’s dockyards when he tries to create a union to protect the lives of dockworkers.
Pathros Menon, from the coastal village of Kasargod, runs away to the financial capital Mumbai to escape the stagnant and dead-beat village life and a stifling family with an abusive father. After a long struggle that lands him on the streets, he finds a meager paying job in the dockyards, surrounded by good, hardworking men in deplorable living situations – all too scared to speak up about their poor living conditions and fearful daily life of illegal work for the looming underworld that seamlessly intertwines itself with life in this gloomy, shipwrecked locality. After getting caught with the underworld himself, but realizing his power within the community, Menon decides to become the voice for the dockworkers and fight the government and gangs, to create a union. Will the power consume him or will he emerge heroic.
DOLPHINS IN COLABA
Feature Length Drama
Drona returns to India on a sabbatical to find his city of Bombay not the same and much filthier than he imagined. Disgusted by his surroundings and battling his own demons of self-worth, Drona takes the cleanup of SoBo into his own hands, fighting between a hero-esque image of himself and that of a man who has little regard for the city and it’s people, till he realises that he’s only a tiny drop in the ocean- a replaceable cork in the system and all he must do is come to terms with his own worth and the way he sees his world.
GOOD DAYS, THEY COME
Feature Length Drama
Dissatisfied by the current political scenario in India, and in the days leading up to the national elections, Sulfath, Imaan and Malhaar, three friends, attempt to make a documentary on the changing landscape. Only to realise that they can’t penetrate the system and must go their own ways.
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8 part hour long Dramatic Series
Genre: Drama, Political, Social
Based between modern day India in 2019 as a new right-wing political party comes to power before an imminent water crisis, and 2040, in a divided Indian subcontinent with a broken economy and an autocratic government negligent of major climate changes - Malvika must find a way to reunite her family and bring them home safely to a doomed India, and ward off the evil forces that choose to keep the country divided.
India 2019
26 year old Malvika is married to Zawwar and lives a happy and incredibly satisfied life in Mumbai - the financial capital of the country. But in May 2019, a right-wing party is elected into power, and things start to change.
Over the next 5 years, the country slowly falls into turmoil - segregating humans by religion, putting a bottleneck on free speech, and investing heavily in war and the military regiment, to make the economy effectively steer quickly towards a crisis.
When it seems like nothing can get worse, a massive water scam is detected, involving major Multinational companies and government authorities alike. Using this as the right opportunity, The Prime Minister decides to declare an emergency, effectively giving him the power to rule the country as an autocracy.
As a civil war begins to break out, Malvika’s husband - unknowingly tied to the water scam, realises he must flee the country before he comes under attack. When Malvika discovers she is pregnant, they decide to leave India, to seek refuge in Armenia which is taking in a stream of Indian refugees from the Indian crisis.
India 2040
21 years since an election was held, the country remains under emergency - likely to never be removed. Irreversible damage through the water scam and massive climate change has left the Indian subcontinent in tatters. While major coastal cities like Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata are partially submerged, inner cities like Delhi and Bangalore suffer from a severe drought. Malvika, in her late 40s, lives alone on the outskirts of Mumbai, and is contesting for a seat within the Union of Mumbai, to make sure water and hygiene are easily available to the citizens of her Union. However, she faces backlash from within her party, as she wishes to join hands with other Unions - technically places that were once a part of India but are now divided.
Her husband Zawwar, and teenage daughter Mira, live a protected life in Armenia, that Malvika left many years ago in order to return to India to look after her ailing mother.
As the distance between her and her family make their relationships suffer, Malvika must find a way of reuniting with her family but also save her country from what has become of it, and keep herself protected from men and women who do not want to see her in a power position.
As the story moves back and forth between 2019 and 2040, we are shown a stark contrast and the horrific realities of what climate change and sectarian politics can do to a country.