Zubaan
Punjabi Shorts Night
SCHEDULE
- Zubaan – 25 Mins
- Me and My Southall – 27 Mins
- The Last Date – 20 Mins
- Cha – 9 Mins
- Scars That Remain After 100 Years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre – 32 Mins
Date:
May 5, 2022
Date:
Tuesday, June 7, 2022Time:
19:00Venue:
MAC Birmingham (Midlands Arts Centre), B12 9QHDirector:
Ojaswwee SharmaCast:
Kanwalpreet Singh, Jagdeep Singh LambaDuration:
25 MinutesLanguage:
Indian Punjabi (with English subtitles)Certified:
PG - Parental Guidance (some scenes may be unsuitable for young children)UK PREMIERE
Synopsis
As a mute shop assistant accidentally witnesses a murder, would he go report the crime or keep to himself and fight his conscious given that there is no clear witness protection policy in place in India.
Kanwal is a mute shop assistant who works in a regular chemist shop in a non-decrepit village. One ordinary salary night as he plans to celebrate the following day by paying obeisance at a Gurudwara and go shopping at the mall with his friend Jagdeep, the night takes the turn for worse. Stopping by as the chain of his cycle comes off to fix it, he happens to witness a murder. Would he go report it despite his disability or fall victim to a shoddy probe generally aimed at saving the high ups? The narrative takes place in a small town and follows the protagonist’s state of mind who feels caught between his elderly parents’ insistence on keeping mum (pun intended) and his call of consciousness?
DIRECTOR BIO
Over more than a decade of his career, Ojaswwee Sharma has more than 92 films consisting of narratives, campaigns, shorts, music videos, documentaries, internet and television talk shows to his credit.
Ojaswwee is the recipient of 16 awards for Best Film and Best Director and has more than 70 Official Film Selections in his filmography worldwide.
He was recently honoured by the Public Relations Council of India and India’s Regional PR Awards 40 Under 40 in 2021. He is the man behind bringing the Sikhlens Film Festival from California to Chandigarh – back to back in 2020, 21 and 22.
His film Admitted is in the running for this year’s National Award, the highest honour to be given to a filmmaker for extraordinary work.
