A dying cinema, a dying city, and a daughter watching both fade to black.
Mampu watches her father struggling to keep his single-screen theatre alive - as her hometown Allahabad acquires a new name and starts losing traces of its past.
Direction
Faraz Ali treats the single-screen theatre as its own character.
Cinematography
Frames that breathe—Allahabad's haze and liminal spaces.
Acting
Purnendu Bhattacharya's stubborn, heartbreaking patriarch.
Director
Faraz Ali
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Allahabad's 2018 renaming to Prayagraj by the BJP government erased Mughal history; the film treats this as ambient trauma.
Shot in actual single-screen theatres across Uttar Pradesh, many now closed.
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