In Kochi, the lives, work, and relationships of a bunch of young people overlap as they try to navigate their role in the film world.

In a turbulent era of intense political unrest, four musical mercenaries rule over dangerous slums, whereupon they navigate complex power dynamics to survive a transformative period in history.

In 1986 Madras, a timid eight-year-old boy accidentally traps a feared gangster inside a deserted school toilet. As the gangster is forced to confront hunger, loneliness and his own vulnerability,…