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Pre Book our film 6.666… Scars on @bmsstream !
Premiere of the Week | Streaming Soon

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Honeybee runs low on memory, 16kb.
The HoneyBee | A mini film | 60 seconds

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Made some frames long back with @radhikasinglaa

Edited- @adnan.y__ 🌼

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STIRfri: Volume 14, Issue 8

GROUNDHOG DAY

Every day is a little bit Groundhog Day. We wake, scroll, work, eat, sleep and do it all again, often without noticing how much of life runs on default settings.

Familiarity is efficient, comforting, and precisely what keeps us from looking again. This week’s stories interrupt and acknowledge that loop.

The analogue, curated design of dumbphones disrupts relentless scrolling; a sleepless worker in ‘Shadows of the Moonless Nights’ exposes the unequal, Sisyphean conditions behind daily work and rest; Cooking Sections traces a meal into ecological and industrial cycles, linking our planetary footprints to our direct circumstances. Each makes the familiar harder to take for granted.

‘Table Manners’ turns to the rituals closest to the body, asking why the design of forks, spoons and knives, and the etiquette around them, have remained so settled. Together, these look beneath the default: what we choose, inherit and have learned not to question.

The point is not merely to escape Groundhog Day, but to notice what we have been repeating long enough to mistake for inevitability.

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Platoon One Screening Room is now open for private screenings with your team, friends and fellow film lovers. DM us to book your slot.

#PlatoonScreeningRoom #film #screenings #mumbaidiaries #culture

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IZZA WRAP ⚡️
6.6̄ Scars only exists because of this cast & crew- every late night, every hard call, every person who showed up and made it real. Thank you for building this with me. 🥂
Big love & massive gratitude 🪭

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f*ck my life😓

special thanks @hanky_panty @radhikasinglaa @shambhavikoijaisehainadii @itsnityaa.v @dotaniya.prashant 🫶

bgm - pal pal har pal (from lage raho munna bhai), ek main aur ekk tu (title track), i’m gonna love you just a little more baby by barry white and love me again by john newman.

all characters and events in this work, even those based on real people are entirely fictional.
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[receding hairline, relationship problems, quirky, short short film]
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#2cents #shortshortfilm

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traditional, on her own terms.

//shot on sony a6400//

#women #streetsofdelhi #delhi #traditional #saree

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It is almost two in the morning, and I find myself wanting to say something I did not plan to say publicly. But the feeling has grown too large to keep private, so I am writing it down before it passes.
6.6̄ Scars has existed since 2021. It did not become a mother-daughter story until December 2024, when I wrote the final draft. By then, both characters were inseparable from parts of myself. The daughter, in particular, was less a character I invented than a version of myself given a different name, so my own experiences could be spoken by someone else’s mouth.
This is why, for auditions, I chose Divita’s monologue, her confession of shame inflicted by society and by her own parent. Each audition ran two hours: first the monologue as written, then a second round where I interrupted and redirected, then three rounds of improvisation drawing on the actor’s own memory, observations and imagination. I was looking for suppressed rage that unravels only at the end. I was also looking for a body willing to break its human shape and find the state of ankoku (darkness) that butoh asks the body to enter. The film demands a great deal of its performer. I could not afford to get this wrong.
What still strikes me is that Radhika has never experienced or witnessed self-harm around. And yet she understood Divita immediately, and followed every direction as though she had been waiting for it. Divita is built from my own psychological history. Watching her inhabit it, I felt something like luck. It had to be raw. She made it raw.
There are moments that make you believe in magic, though the magic, examined closely, is simply human connection done correctly. Her performance is immaculate. Everyone who has seen the film has said so, without exception. It is often said that a good performance is a marriage between director and actor. I can confirm that in 6.6̄ Scars, we were married.
I hold immense respect and gratitude for her. We were strangers before set. Now, though we do not speak daily, I feel closest to her, the particular magic of filmmaking: two strangers building a world together, one that outlasts its making.
Thank you for being my voice on screen. @radhikasinglaa

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6.6̄ Scars has found a home at the International Kolkata Short Film Festival, earning an Official Selection and a nomination among the Top 5 films in the Large Short Films category.
We are deeply grateful to IKSFF for this recognition, and for the opportunity to have this story stand among such distinguished work. Our sincere thanks to the cast and crew for their belief in this film, and to everyone who has supported 6.6̄ Scars along the way.

@radhikasinglaa @simran_of_sandhu @riddhigoenka @b.h_uvan @krishanu.ok @simran.kanwaria @iamraazbajiya @almostfilmmaker @titixasharma @vivek_sharoff @sudeep_kapoor

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Honored to share that 6.6̄ Scars has won Best Short Film in Social Awareness at the Kodaikanal International Film Festival.
6.6̄ Scars is a visceral portrait of a young woman confronting the isolating aftermath of self-harm, and her struggle to break free from the silence and shame that bind her.

Beneath its raw intensity lies an urgent message: scars are not cries for attention, but evidence of survival. The film challenges viewers to confront the cost of stigma, and to imagine healing not through erasure, but through acceptance, empathy, and healthier ways to endure.

Grateful to @radhikasinglaa @simran_of_sandhu @riddhigoenka @b.h_uvan @krishanu.ok @audio_tic @simran.kanwaria @titixasharma @almostfilmmaker @iamraazbajiya @sudeep_kapoor @vivek_sharoff , and to Kodaikanal IFF for honoring this story.

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6.6̄ Scars is heading to the Ahmedabad International Film Festival, screening as an Official Nomination from September 30 to October 2, 2026.
At its heart is a young woman whose seemingly flawless public image conceals private wounds, drawn into a surreal time loop that mirrors the depressive spiral of self-harm itself. Judgment, denial, and erasure replay relentlessly, forcing us to inhabit the suffocating claustrophobia of her mind, until one truth breaks through: scars are not cries for attention, but evidence of survival.
This is a film about what happens after the wound, in the silence that follows, in the isolation that stigma creates, and in the long, difficult work of healing not through erasure, but through acceptance and empathy. We hope this screening opens space for that conversation.
We are grateful to the Ahmedabad International Film Festival for this recognition, and for giving 6.6̄ Scars a platform to reach new audiences.

@radhikasinglaa @simran_of_sandhu @riddhigoenka @b.h_uvan @simran.kanwaria @vivek_sharoff @sudeep_kapoor @almostfilmmaker @titixasharma @iamraazbajiya @krishanu.ok @abhisek6533

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