Acclaimed Indian filmmakers Shoojit Sircar and Vikramaditya Motwane have joined forces to current “Thursday Special,” a brief movie by Indian Nationwide Award winner Varun Tandon that has earned important recognition on the worldwide pageant circuit.
The intimate drama, which explores themes of affection, companionship and the passage of time, just lately claimed the Most Poetic Movie Award at Serbia’s Küstendorf Movie Competition 2025, a distinction personally chosen by famend director Emir Kusturica.
“Thursday Particular” stars Anubha Fatehpuria and Ramakanth Dayama as Ram and Shakuntala, an aged married couple whose relationship is anchored by their mutual ardour for meals and a weekly Thursday custom. Karan Luthra produces, with Tandon penning the script alongside co-writer and govt producer Krati Tandon.
Sircar, whose directing credit embody “Piku,” “Vicky Donor” and “October,” praised the movie’s understated strategy. “Thursday Particular actually moved me with its simplicity and mild storytelling,” he stated, drawing comparisons to his personal unreleased function “Shoe Chunk,” which starred Amitabh Bachchan.
“Varun’s nuanced portrayal of companionship, ageing, and love is heartfelt and mature. It’s a gently dealt with tackle marriage and middle-age relationships – particularly spectacular for a younger filmmaker – and it jogged my memory, in a method, of my unreleased movie Shoe Chunk,” Sircar added. “The storytelling in ‘Thursday Particular’ is evident and honest, with each division serving the story. Realizing that Varun has revamped 15 quick movies highlighted his ardour and dedication, and I felt each he and the movie deserved help.”
Motwane, identified for pushing boundaries in up to date Indian cinema, emphasised the movie’s give attention to missed narratives. “Once I watched ‘Thursday Particular’, I used to be struck by the truth that although all of the tales we inform are human tales, we are likely to overlook that there are such a lot of different tales on the market within the mundane, and within the lives of people that you wouldn’t count on to have distinctive tales,” he stated.
“I actually loved the movie. I feel folks ought to see it, and they’ll prefer it. It’s a movie you can speak about and talk about and never simply from an aesthetic perspective. Whereas it’s fantastically directed and carried out, it’s actually particular by way of pure story, pure feeling,” Motwane added.
For Tandon, whose quick “Syaahi” earned a Particular Jury Award on the Indian Nationwide Movie Awards, the venture represents a long-cherished inventive imaginative and prescient. “It is a story that has stayed in my coronary heart for years. I used to be taken over by the sheer pleasure and curiosity to see these characters on display and watch their lives unfold,” stated the filmmaker, who additionally directed the documentary quick “Dribbling Desires.”
“Thursday Particular is a heartfelt portrayal of a pair whose lives revolve round their shared ardour for meals. By means of their weekly custom, we delve into their world and witness the intricate layers of their relationship,” Tandon added.
The quick has amassed greater than 25 awards throughout international festivals since its premiere at Mecal Professional in Barcelona. Notable wins embody Finest Narrative Brief on the New York Indian Movie Competition, Finest Worldwide Brief Movie on the Adelaide Impartial Movie Competition, and Finest Narrative Brief on the Tryon Worldwide Movie Competition.
The movie is about for launch on Jan. 29 by way of the People of Cinema YouTube channel.
