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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Yashasvi Juyal did not pitch his way into filmmaking. He shot his way in.
“We never went through the route of pitching from development,” the Indian filmmaker says of “The Ink Stained Hand and the Missing Thumb,” his debut feature, which premieres in the Proxima Competition at Karlovy Vary. “We shot the film and then we started pitching.”
The film follows Rajji, a toll booth worker in North India, whose lover Santosh dies in a truck accident and returns 24 hours later as a spectral presence, drifting between memory and the disappearing world of the highway toll booth where they worked. For Juyal, the setup was not a genre exercise. It was reporting.
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