A young boy. A quaint hilly town. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Perhaps, that is what metamorphosis needs.
Direction
Tandon treats 29 minutes like epic poetry.
Cinematography
Hills swallow characters whole; gorgeous and cruel.
Director
Varun Tandon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in the Kumaon hills of Uttarakhand, the film captures a specific Himalayan small-town ennui rarely seen in Indian cinema, where beauty becomes claustrophobia.
Gopal Datt, known primarily for comedy, delivers a terrifyingly contained performance as the father—casting against type that pays devastating dividends.