Chintu Ka Birthday filmmaker Satyanshu Singh recounts his journey of moving to Mumbai from a small town with nothing but a script in hand, and his experiences of navigating the industry to make his first film
Chintu Ka Birthday works as a commentary on American aggression, the futility of war, the horrors of living under a despotic regime and the connective tissue between human beings irrespective of language, geography and colour
The characters are annoyingly upbeat, constantly in denial, hopelessly hopeful, putting on a show when nobody’s watching. But context inverts the genre of their story
It is 10am on a Sunday morning and around 30 students are seated around tables listening intently to a professor who, for reasons unknown, has drawn a diagram of a…