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Mehta & Co.

In the bustling lanes of Bangalore, Ravi, a disillusioned young man from the Marwari community, finds himself responsible for Mehta & Co, his late father’s modest saree shop. Resentful and emotionally distant, he sees the shop as a burden — a relic of a strained relationship with a man he never truly understood.

But when a local language enforcement group vandalizes the shop’s signboard, Ravi is pulled into a confrontation that forces him to engage — with the city, his community, and his own suppressed grief. Ravi slowly begins to see the quiet sacrifices of his father in a new light.

Mehta & Co is a tender exploration of loss, identity, and the weight of heritage, set against a backdrop of cultural friction and emotional reckoning. It is a quiet exploration of grief, identity, and the invisible ties that bind us to our past.

  • Rohit Sen
    Director
    Bombay Mix
  • Rohit Sen
    Writer
  • Swati Lohani
    Producer
  • Rohit Sen
    Producer
  • Atif Pervez
    Producer
  • Supriya Parikh
    Producer
  • Dheeraj Rajpurohit
    Key Cast
    "Ravi"
  • Krish Jain
    Key Cast
    "Titu"
  • Vignesh Kamath
    Key Cast
  • Harishkumar Rai
    Cinematography
    Photo
  • Makhtiyar V
    Sound Recordist
    Kota Factory
  • Shreyank Nanjappa
    Sound Design
    Kabir Singh, Article 15
  • Roshan Kr
    DI Colorist
    A Doll Made Up Of Clay
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes 57 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 30, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    300,000 INR
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Hindi, Kannada, Rajasthani
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Rohit Sen

Rohit Sen is an emerging filmmaker and cancer survivor based in Bangalore, India. His films are rooted in emotional truth, often reflecting on grief, identity, and the quiet strength of everyday people. A cybersecurity engineer by profession, Rohit found his voice in filmmaking while battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma — a journey that sharpened his perspective on vulnerability, connection, and resilience.

His short film Bombay Mix — a poignant tale of intergenerational bonding — was selected at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival and was a finalist at the Indian Golden Mirror Film Festival. Paanch Rupaiya, shot entirely on a mobile phone, won second prize at the India Mobile Film Festival in Mumbai, judged by filmmaker Sanjay Gadhvi.

Rohit’s body of work includes Saree, which examines the quiet injustice of gendered marital expectations, and Two Cents, a memory-based story of a girl’s emotional connection with a tea vendor. His films are characterized by minimalism, realism, and a deeply personal lens on society.

Mehta & Co. is his most personal work to date — an introspective story on fatherhood, heritage, and unspoken love.

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Director Statement

Mehta & Co. is a quiet film about loud emotions — the kind that remain unspoken between fathers and sons, between people and their past, between communities and the spaces they inhabit.

It began as a personal story of grief and emotional disconnect. I was drawn to the idea of a young man who doesn’t know how to mourn — who has built a wall of resentment around his late father, only to find cracks in it when life confronts him in unexpected ways. As the story took shape, it began to echo another layer I’ve often observed — the quiet unease of feeling slightly out of place in a rapidly shifting city.

Set in a small saree shop in Bangalore, the film touches on the tension between tradition and transition. Ravi, the protagonist, is not actively at odds with the world around him, but he also doesn’t fully belong to it. The shop, the city, the language — all carry weight and expectation. Through the seemingly simple conflict of a vandalized signboard, the film explores how memory, identity, and cultural belonging are tied to spaces we often take for granted.

As a filmmaker and cancer survivor, I’m drawn to stories of unexpressed emotion — the quiet griefs, the reluctant inheritances, the identities we try to distance ourselves from but are always shaped by. I chose a restrained visual approach — static frames, ambient sound, soft natural light — to stay true to the inner stillness and confusion of the characters.

Mehta & Co. is not just a story about a shop or a family. It’s about all that we carry — silently — from those who came before us, and the small, deeply human ways we try to make sense of it.