Project Detail

Road To Ladakh

Synopsis

Irrfan Khan (The Warrior) and Koel Purie (Everybody Says I'm Fine) lead this surreal rites of passage encounter between a dysfunctional, coke-snorting fashion model and an ultra-focussed, strong-silent stranger who are thrown together by chance. Set in the magnificent wilderness moon-scape of Ladakh, India, the road journey and the strange encounters that follow provide a dramatic backdrop for the relationship that develops.

Both are outsiders, both are lonely, both crave the human contact that their roles in society deny them. Tentatively they search each other out in a film that is poised between elusiveness and engagement, suspicion and tenderness - at once hilarious and sinister, bizarre and moving, psychedelic and intensely real, Road to Ladakh is an original story scripted, edited and produced by director Ashvin Kumar.

Details

Year
2004
Type of film
Shorts
Running time
48 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Ashvin Kumar
Producer
Ashvin Kumar
Editor
Ashvin Kumar
Screenwriter
Ashvin Kumar
Director of Photography
Markus Huersch
Sound
Haresh Patel
Music
Susmit Sen
Principal cast
Irfan Khan, Koel Purie

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Rasa Pictures Ltd

3, 186 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
WC2H 8JB
UK

T+44 (0)20 7836 6640

Sales Company

Britshorts Ltd

25 Beak Street
London
W1F 9RT
UK

T+44 (0)20 7734 2277

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