“SAVERA (Reel 1)”
Dir. Tushar Kejriwal
Producer(s) : Tushar Kejriwal and B Prasanna
Brief
A short reel teasing Prasanna’s song ‘Savera’, a song that celebrates finding a safe space, a sanctuary after a long search. The song celebrates the joy and gratitude of experiencing these things. It is feel-good, while considering its characters’ past traumas.
Our Take
After going through several ideas that bordered on being literal or styled as a narrative, we settled on going for something abstract, through movement. But not too abstract, so as to make it ‘performance art’. Inspired by the way a story about a couple is told through dance, in regular lived-in spaces in the low budget Justin Bieber music video ‘Love Yourself’, we realised that we needed a solid location to serve as a supporting character in this reel. Since indoor videos about couples had been done plenty of times before, we ventured outside, once again using the city of Mumbai, specifically South Mumbai, as our backdrop and third character. And instead of making this a ‘dance reel’, we wanted to infuse dance into an otherwise vertical silent film, with characters, using movement to highlight only the abstract.