Name of the film I.D.

Directed by Kamal K. M.

Year 2012

CountryIndia

Duration83 mins

LanguageHindi

About the film

This indie feature is about Charu (Geetanjali Thapa) and a mysterious worker who comes to work at her place. Mysterious because the whole movie is balanced on the fact that Charu knows absolutely nothing about this man, which leads to more complications as the film progresses. This drama that is ultimately about our inherent responsibility to ourselves and those around us..

Director’s Note

Identity. What defines us? How do we connect to our environment with a greater sensitivity at a time when there is an ever-widening divide between us? Many thoughts occurred to me when I heard my friend narrating an experience she had. A labourer working at her house collapsed in the midst of his work. This man had no form of identification on him. She didn’t know who to ask to aid in getting medical help for him. It evoked many questions in me. I started writing it and left one part of the story unwritten. I believed the process would reveal that to us. We started shooting the film in real locations. The city spoke to us, through her myriad migrant peoples, who had come here from various parts of the country in search of a better life. The process of making this film revealed unknown urban spaces to me, spaces that are screaming to be heard. Behind our protagonist, Charu, our film crew traversed these spaces engaging in the search for the identity of a nameless man, who we were trying to place in the vast anonymity of the city.

Director Biography

Kamal joined the National Film School in Pune, Film and Television Institute of India, to do his Masters in Film Direction. The shorts he directed as part of academic projects (Aaryavarth and Vadhakramam) were showcased in film festivals globally, and even won the Special Jury Award at Rio De Janiero International Film Festival and the Kodak Film School Competition. I.D. is his debut feature film, and the first of the collaborations of Collective Phase One.