Kriya

While working a club set, DJ Neel (Noble Luke) encounters the ravishing Sitara (Navjot Randhawa) and is utterly transfixed by her. They go back to her home and he’s immediately met by the furthest scenario that ever could have crossed his mind – a grieving family in a ritualistic space, gathered around her father’s dying body. As India’s patriarchal death customs dictate that a male offspring read a parent’s last rites – and no such son exists in Sitara’s family – enormous pressure is put on a very surprised Neel to perform the act. It isn’t the strangest thing that he will encounter in this household. As night crosses over into day, it soon becomes evident that Sitara’s family is afflicted by an ancestral curse. One that Neel is now very much a part of. (Fantasia International Film Festival)