I was born into the Chamar community — officially classified as a Scheduled Caste in India, historically known as Dalit. Growing up, that classification followed me everywhere. It wasn't always loud. It was just always there, shaping what I thought I was allowed to want.
Film became my escape. It let me craft my own narrative — write my own story instead of the one I was handed. Along the way I found other people who had something to say too, people who'd been told their story didn't matter the same way I was. We all have one.
It's one of the only mediums that can put a room full of strangers inside someone else's story and make them actually feel it — the music, the movement, the edit, the timing, working on you all at once until you're lost somewhere else entirely, just for a few hours. Most people call that magic. It's not. It's art.
Being an Outcastes is a form of defiance.
It's the fight. It's standing up for what's yours. It's going the distance, even when going the distance is the hardest, quietest thing you do.
That's what I chase on every set — for whoever's story it is, not just mine. If you've got something worth saying, let's chat below.