SNAAN (Unholy) | Short Film | Kinoscope Films

In a village on the Haryana-Rajasthan border, water is rationed to a family of bonded agricultural labourers which is enough to drink, never enough to wash. As the summer thickens and their wages stay withheld, the shame of their own bodies curdles into something that cannot be contained. SNAAN watches this unfold through the eyes of Tanta, an eight-year-old who keeps looking toward the highway in the distance, waiting to leave. The title comes from shuddhi snaan, the cleansing bath one takes after contact with the impure. But purity only exists because someone has been marked impure. This is a film about that arithmetic: caste, water, labour, and the humiliation carried in the skin. A Kinoscope Films Production Written & Directed by BHAGAT SINGH SAINI Produced by BALRAJ JANGRA, SHISHIR UNIYAL, PARVEEN SAINI, PANKAJ YADAV, BHAGAT SINGH SAINI Creative Producer SHISHIR UNIYAL Executive Producer & Line Producer BALRAJ JANGRA Associate Director PARVEEN SAINI Cinematographer: GAUTAM SINGH Sound Design DILIP AHIRWAR Sound Recordist PRAVEEN Casting KABIR KASHYAP & BALRAJ JANGRA (KNOW CASTING) Camera Assistant RAJESH PAL Editor MOHD. TARIQ Colourist MANISH SHARMA Dialect Consultant ANURADHA Actors: CHINKI SAHNI, PANKAJ YADAV, SHIVAM TIWARI, MANI PANCHAL, RAVI KANT, PARVEEN SAINI, PARDEEP KUMAR, MONU JANGRA, ISHWAR SINGH JHURIA, KAMAL SHARMA, SURENDER KUMAR “HAYDEN”, SUBE SINGH JANGRA, JAI SINGH, HAWA SINGH, ROHTASH CHHIMPA Runtime: 20 minutes Language: Hindi (with subtitles) Subscribe to Kinoscope Films for more. #SnaanFilm #ShortFilm #IndianCinema #KinoscopeFilms #BhagatSinghSaini #HaryanaStories #CasteAndCinema #WaterIsLife #IndependentFilm #ParallelCinema #HindiShortFilm #FilmFestival