Private Project

Killat

Killat, This is a story of a mother who takes great pride in serving her son-in-law, Damaad Babu, with best hospitality on his first visit to her house. When Damaad Babu asks for an extra bucket of water while bathing, Mother and daughter struggle their way through to find a bucket of water in the village. Her struggles have a sense of levity in depiction, but one can clearly understand the gravity of the situation she is in during her struggles. She tries her best to keep her pride intact in front of her son-in-law and society. Her struggle to find a bucket of water amidst dire scarcity involves a comic and dramatic wrestle with her neighbor.

  • Saurabh Dixit
    Director
  • Saurabh Dixit
    Writer
  • Shikhar Kanaskar
    Writer
  • Tanmay Shukla
    Writer
  • Shubham Vishwakarma
    Writer
  • Chiranjeev Joshi
    Writer
  • Saurabh Dixit
    Producer
  • Niti Shrivastava
    Key Cast
  • Laxmi Pandey
    Key Cast
  • Meeta Jeswani
    Key Cast
  • Chiranjeev Joshi
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    किल्लत
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Satire, Dark Comedy, Drama
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 22 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 27, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Hindi
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.34:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)
Director Biography - Saurabh Dixit

Saurabh Dixit is a 24-year-old young Indie Award-Winning Filmmaker from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII Pune). He has produced and directed up to 7 short films. He made his first short film at the age of 15 on Tiger Conservation which won "The Best Short Film" with Conservation Message (Student Category) at Central Indian Highlands Wildlife Film Festival. Apart from this, he has worked as a cinematographer for various films and advertisements. He is from Bhopal, India and is a User Experience Designing Student at Symbiosis Institute of Design, India. His film "Present" won him the Best Director award at Buddha International Film Festival 2019.

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Director Statement

I produced and directed this film, Killat, after coming across two families fighting over the most basic necessity to sustain one's livelihood. "Killat" is a short film that comes from the desire of highlighting serious water crises that has plagued India for quite some time now. The scarcity of clean drinking water is a huge problem and many people have lost their lives striving to get access to it. Later, I found out that this was a problem in my locality as well where people in nearby slums had to fight over drinking water. I came to realize that people have lost lives around me for the same. These observations deeply affected me and this film is an attempt to highlight and bring up awareness among people who do not believe that such a thing would ever exist.