Yashasvi Juyal's debut feature 'The Ink Stained Hand and the Missing Thumb' premieres at Karlovy Vary
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Naman Ramachandran
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Indian filmmaker Yashasvi Juyal's debut feature 'The Ink Stained Hand and the Missing Thumb' premieres in the Proxima Competition at Karlovy Vary. The film follows Rajji, a toll booth worker in North India, whose lover Santosh dies in a truck accident and returns as a spectral presence. Juyal took an unconventional approach by shooting the film first before pitching it to producers, drawing from local ghost stories and the disappearing world of highway toll booths in India.
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VarietyYashasvi Juyal's debut feature 'The Ink Stained Hand and the Missing Thumb' premieres at Karlovy Varyvariety.comKey quotes
· 2 pulledWe never went through the route of pitching from development. 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 wor
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