Two brothers, one broken night, and the kind of pain that outlasts daylight itself.
Fireflies come out in the night, just to light up the darkness. They live as long as the glow lasts. Even if it is a lifetime, being lived in a day. FIREFLIES is the story of two estranged brothers, Shiv and Rana. Living disparate lives, sometimes illuminated by unexpected intimacies and newfound hope, the brothers still remain shackled to the darkness of their past. Haunting memories of a tragic incident must be resolved before they can be brothers again.
Acting
Khanna and Mathur build entire histories in loaded silences.
Cinematography
Delhi at night never looked this lonely or this beautiful.
Direction
Shekhawat trusts you to read between the cuts.
Director
Sabal Singh Shekhawat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rahul Khanna took a seven-year hiatus from leads before this; Shekhawat wrote Shiv specifically for his particular brand of restrained melancholy.
The film's Delhi is deliberately unrecognizable—no monuments, no bustle—just the city's forgotten corners where estrangement festers.
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