Small-town kids with big trauma pick up a camera—and accidentally expose everyone.
Chippy is all about a bunch of school going kids from Thalassery, a coastal area in Kerala, who want to make a short film revolving around their distasteful experiences in life.
Acting
Non-professional kids feel devastatingly authentic, not 'cute.'
Direction
Pradeep Chokli lets Thalassery breathe—beauty and rot coexist.
Writing
Meta-structure blurs who's exploiting whom. Messy in the best way.
Director
Pradeep Chokli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thalassery's unique Theyyam performance culture subtly mirrors the kids' own masked storytelling—ritual as controlled chaos, public as private pain.
The zero TMDB score is almost perfect: this film about invisible suffering was itself algorithmically invisible, found only by persistent seekers.
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