It is a special day for Ajju: he is celebrating his father's 90th birthday. However, the latter is suffering from dementia. He is continually losing his bearings, and has problems recognising his own son. While his party is ongoing, the father embarks on a solitary quest to find his teeth, presumably lost somewhere in the hotel where the celebration is taking place. For him, the hotel is a strangely familiar non-place, completely void of memories, which he wanders through in a disconcerting hallucinatory quest for his missing prosthesis. Dentures is an unusual short film which enjoys gently confusing viewers and thwarting their expectations. Guided by the demented wanderings of a disoriented father, the film works a discontinuous and ingenious temporality that ends up in an explosive narrative chaos. Dentures is a quirky, experimental and intimate object, whose narrative is continually challenged by the memory losses of its protagonist.
- Year2022
- Runtime16 minutes
- CountryIndia
- DirectorSiddharth Potade & Nikhil Lama
- ScreenwriterSiddharth Potade & Nikhil Lama
- ProducerPrabhav Sharma
- Executive ProducerNikhil Lama , Sankalp Agrawal & Aditi Moulik
- CastSreeRam Dive, Satish Bhave, Dhananjay Kanade, Nirmal Kumar Devda, Kamal Chiplunkar, Mayuresh Bhave
- CinematographerJigmet Wangchuk
- EditorParashar Naik
- Sound DesignAbhijit Chetia
It is a special day for Ajju: he is celebrating his father's 90th birthday. However, the latter is suffering from dementia. He is continually losing his bearings, and has problems recognising his own son. While his party is ongoing, the father embarks on a solitary quest to find his teeth, presumably lost somewhere in the hotel where the celebration is taking place. For him, the hotel is a strangely familiar non-place, completely void of memories, which he wanders through in a disconcerting hallucinatory quest for his missing prosthesis. Dentures is an unusual short film which enjoys gently confusing viewers and thwarting their expectations. Guided by the demented wanderings of a disoriented father, the film works a discontinuous and ingenious temporality that ends up in an explosive narrative chaos. Dentures is a quirky, experimental and intimate object, whose narrative is continually challenged by the memory losses of its protagonist.
- Year2022
- Runtime16 minutes
- CountryIndia
- DirectorSiddharth Potade & Nikhil Lama
- ScreenwriterSiddharth Potade & Nikhil Lama
- ProducerPrabhav Sharma
- Executive ProducerNikhil Lama , Sankalp Agrawal & Aditi Moulik
- CastSreeRam Dive, Satish Bhave, Dhananjay Kanade, Nirmal Kumar Devda, Kamal Chiplunkar, Mayuresh Bhave
- CinematographerJigmet Wangchuk
- EditorParashar Naik
- Sound DesignAbhijit Chetia