Devoid 

Director's Note 

Growing up as a brown skin woman in a brown-skinned country that somehow doesn't like it's type, I was made to apply DIY homemade face packs used by my grandmother to cure the curse of dark skin. Small things like this were so normalized for me and countless others that we never questioned it until much later. While going over a collection of Poetry I published, I read and re-read this poem and began to envision it as something that calls for the screen. I was lucky to find a wonderful team of young women with similar experiences who could bring this vision to life. Shruti Bhatt, the choreographer,  created a beautiful dance piece that combined her background in Bharatynatayam, a classical Indian dance, with Contemporary dance. Apart from countless hours to produce this vision, preparing my body for the rigor of this dance and getting accustomed to the Bhatarnataym steps was a challenge. As I director, my favorite memory was that of working with our child actor Myra Rao, whose emotional capabilities and readiness to deliver were such a pleasure to watch!