{"id":881922,"date":"2026-10-14T11:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881922\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:06:09","slug":"tallinn-bound-indian-drama-kidney-boarded-by-platoon-one-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881922\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallinn-Bound Indian Drama ‘Kidney’ Boarded by Platoon One Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIndian drama \u201cKidney<\/a>,\u201d the second feature from filmmaking siblings Aakarsh and Agrim Sansanwal, has been boarded by Shiladitya Bora<\/a>\u2019s Platoon One Films<\/a>, which joins as co-producer ahead of the film\u2019s slot in the Critics\u2019 Picks Competition at Estonia\u2019s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival<\/a> (P\u00d6FF).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is produced by Enfant Terrible Productions, the Mumbai outfit the brothers set up. Set in an isolated Indian village, it follows a young man and woman from feuding families who fall in love. When a quarrel over an inheritance revives old hostilities, their relationship comes under pressure from greed and treachery in a conflict not of their making.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe made the film with very little money and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of spirit,\u201d said Aakarsh Sansanwal. \u201cWhen the budget ran out, the entire village, its farming community, stood behind us. They helped us through the hurdles and, in their own way, became part of the film\u2019s journey. This film carries the hands and hearts of the people who helped bring it into the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKidney\u201d adds to a Platoon One slate that counts \u201cBayaan,\u201d \u201cToh Ti Ani Fuji,\u201d \u201cBhagwan Bharose,\u201d \u201cMinimum,\u201d \u201cGhaath,\u201d \u201cPicasso\u201d and \u201cYours Truly\u201d among its titles.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe director said Platoon One was among the first to spot that spirit in the film and back what the brothers were attempting. \u201cTheir support gave the film a chance to travel beyond the world in which it was made and reach audiences we could only have hoped for. To see it now receive recognition and find its way into the light is deeply moving. My thanks to the Tallinn Black Nights team for discovering our film and giving it a place to shine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTallinn\u2019s Critics\u2019 Picks strand spotlights films with a clear artistic point of view and a fresh take on storytelling, including work that wrestles with genre, cinema\u2019s past and the social issues of the moment. Earlier selections include Arati Kadav\u2019s \u201cMrs.,\u201d starring Sanya Malhotra, as well as \u201cThe Brothers Kitaura,\u201d \u201cAbout Us But Not About Us\u201d and \u201cThe Bone Breakers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBora, who founded Platoon One, said that when he first watched \u201cKidney\u201d he knew he was \u201clooking at something different, something that hadn\u2019t been attempted in quite this way.\u201d He also pointed to the Sansanwals\u2019 \u201cstrong and distinct voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt would be easy to dismiss a film like \u2018Kidney\u2019 as esoteric, but what struck me was the depth of emotion underneath its craft and form,\u201d Bora said. \u201cThere is a dense, deeply felt emotional layer running through the film, and the film\u2019s unique style becomes a way of expressing that emotion rather than an end in itself. That is exactly the kind of cinema Platoon One wants to stand behind: original, distinctive and deeply rooted voices. I couldn\u2019t let go of this film after I saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe brothers divide their time between Mumbai and Delhi. Aakarsh has worked as an assistant director to Reema Kagti, Abhinay Deo and Pushpendra Misra, while Agrim trained as a filmmaker with a focus on editing and assisted editor Deepa Bhatia on \u201cSkater Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pair co-wrote and co-directed their first feature, the experimental \u201cTo Caterpillar, From Butterfly,\u201d which debuted at the Dharamshala International Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian drama \u201cKidney,\u201d the second feature from filmmaking siblings Aakarsh and Agrim Sansanwal, has been boarded by Shiladitya…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,15080,206,370332,370333,156505],"class_list":["post-881922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-kidney","tag-movies","tag-platoon-one-films","tag-shiladitya-bora","tag-tallinn-black-nights-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}