A young couple, Priyanka and Sumit, having eloped to a metropolitan city during the Covid-19 pandemic, return to the security of their hometown in Darbhanga. While Priyanka, a strong-willed and independent woman, finds herself feeling uneasy in the claustrophobic familiarity of her old surroundings, Sumit happily renews bonds with his gang of mates and slips into a carefree and irresponsible lifestyle. Sumit’s cavalier attitude and disregard for Priyanka’s distress infuriates her and leads to growing emotional distance between the two. Dark clouds gather even as Darbhanga is drenched in a torrential downpour. Priyanka and Sumit must make difficult decisions. Can their love survive the increasingly suffocating pressures of rigid small-town mores with their prescribed gender roles?
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Festival Appearances
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2022 – Special Mention New Directors Award
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Parth Saurabh
Parth Saurabh was born and brought up in Darbhanga, the setting of Pokhar Ke Dunu Paar. After graduating from IIT Kanpur, he studied film direction at Whistling Woods International. While there, he was selected by Looking China and made a short documentary, The Ballad of Toyuk (2017), about the architecture and people of Xinjiang. His first feature screenplay, A Temple in the Village, was selected for the NFDC Screenwriters’ Lab 2017. He was part of the writing team on Achal Mishra’s critically acclaimed film, Dhuin (2022), and Anubhav Sinha’s Bheed (2022).
Fri, 4 Nov | 3:20 pm | Main Audi
