A 65 year old man trudges along the lanes and bylanes of a city - a city that is rapidly changing, a city where the toils of this man with the mashaq is a story to be curated, frozen, archived as a relic of the past … ‘Ripples Under the Skin’ tells the story of the Calcutta that lurks behind the glitz and glamour of today’s Calcutta, it tells the story of a community of migrant workers who had come to this city to make a living, a city that never invited them yet somehow they made home, even though ‘home’ remains elusive, a city that nourishes, waters itself through the toils of people like Nazim chacha, yet conveniently forgets, casts them away when it chooses to walk towards the future.
Direction & Editing - Farha Khatun
Cinematography - Kumar Tapas Ranjan
Location Sound - B. Suresh Kumar
Sound Design and Mixing - Sabyasachi Pal
Music - Santajit Chatterjee
Narration Script and Voice over - Monalisa Mukherji
Graphics - Santanu Mitra & Amit Bagchi
Production - Bijaya Nishanka
Producer - Films Division
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) , India
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)
Azim Premji University (APU), India
National Institute of Design (NID), India
Jamia Millia Islamia, India
