Mod (The Turn)

About the film

Mod is an attempt by the filmmaker at communicating with the young men who hang out at the ‘notorious’ water tank in her neighbourhood in Pratap Vihar, Ghaziabad. The water tank is a space that is frequented by the so-called ‘no-gooders’ of the locality, a place where they play cricket, play cards, drink and smoke up. When she enters the space with her camera, the boys are curious and at the same time wary of it and her. They sometimes resist, sometimes protest, and at times, open up. As the film unfolds we get a hint of the lives the boys lead and the fragile world they create for themselves at the water tank.

Director Biography

Pushpa Rawat has been involved in film projects in her own community in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. She was one of the filmmakers of the 2007 short documentary Kyon, a group project around gender-based violence. Her debut film Nirnay (2012) was a deeply personal film looking at her own life and those of her women friends. It was the winner of the Pramod Pati Award for the Most Innovative Film at MIFF 2014. She is the recipient of the TISS-SMCS Early Career Fellowship and her second film Mod was made as a part of this.