Formerly confined to a reserved target, productions of Bollywood export more and more to an audience curious to discover other tropes and script biases. Submitted to NIFFF, Bediya by Amar Kaushik takes back the ingredients dear to the Indian show, the fantastic bonus. Behind his potache humour and his lycanthropic stories with a well-bullyed bust, Bediya Yet hides a political object more affute than it seems...
Lycanthropic zoonoses
In a forest area in northern India for work, a small team is commissioned by a company to convince indigenous people to accept a large road project. Only flat, it means cutting down the forest for which it has been cultivating respect for generations. Bhaskar starts to feel weird after being bitten by a wolf during a rock scene that only Indian cinema is capable of producing. We'll explain how Amar Kaushik managed to subvert some of Bollywood's traditional codes. Zoonosis and lycanthropy in the same film, it's possible and it's called Bediya !
Amar Kaushik, director
Amar Kaushik has been an actor and director of the Indian film industry since 2008, the year his film was released. Aamir. He also played small roles in films No One Killed Jessica (2011), Go Goa Gone (2013), and Ghankhakkar (2013). He was also assistant director of films like Sorry Bhai! (2008), I Am (2010), and Night (2017). These most popular films are Street (2018) and Bala (2019). Bediya is his last film to date.
Trailer of Bediya
What did I laugh at Lucie during the session! So much so that I lost my credit card! ^^^
Luckily the charitable souls of this happy Swiss audience allowed her to find her then, loved between two seats. It didn't stop us from losing her a week later in the Pyrenean mountains.🤷♂️
I've always had a lot of trouble with Indian cinema... Especially with those in Bollywood! 🙁