STRAY GIRLS
Presented by Anurag Kashyap
Featuring Nimisha Nair & Sarah Hashmi
Writer-Director: Ambarien Alqadar
Producers: Anurag Kashyap, Ranjan Singh, Ambarien Alqadar, Neeraj Churi
Layla goes to a beauty salon in the narrow lanes of a Muslim neighborhood in New Delhi against the approval of her older brother. At the salon she meets Nasrine who invites her to a secret dance party. As Layla gets closer to Nasrine at her first ever dance party, her brother catches her and shames her for being 'stray'. As she musters the courage to break her silence, she realizes she has superpowers.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT: My mother's beauty salon in our closely knit neighborhood in New Delhi, where I found myself spending several afternoons listening, observing, transgressing, making friends and laughing made me question why stories of joy and abandonment absent for Muslim women. This is my love letter to my neighborhood and New Delhi.
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Crew:
Cinematographer: Prateek Pamecha
Production Designer: Samiyah Saud
Editor: Joydip Das
Sound Recordist: Vidhaat Raman
Stage: Post-Production