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My Dog Is Sick

My Dog is Sick pursues a couple traversing through isolation. The alpha male and the conscious female both seeking to destroy each other by pushing dormant buttons and grasping pleasure in serving and devouring each other. It’s a circle that liberates before it starts to suffocate.

  • Sapna Moti Bhavnani
    Director
    Sindhustan
  • Sapna Moti Bhavnani
    Writer
    Sindhustan
  • Sapna Moti Bhavnani
    Producer
    Sindhustan
  • Wench FIlms
    Producer
  • Rajshri Deshpande
    Key Cast
    Sexy Durga, Angry Indian Goddesses
  • Anshuman Jha
    Key Cast
    Love Sex Aur Dhokha
  • Raju Biswas
    Cinematographer
  • Viraj Singh
    Cinematographer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Mera Kutta Bimaar Hai
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Other
  • Genres:
    Hybrid, Drama, Experimental, Fantasy
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 4 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 27, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Visions Du Reel Film Market 2021
    Nyon
    Switzerland
  • New Horizons International Film Festival
    Warsaw
    Poland
    August 14, 2021
    World
    Official Selection
  • Hollywood International Women Arts Alliance
    Los Angeles
    United States
    Official Selection
  • RVK Feminist Film Festival
    Reykjavik
    Iceland
    January 15, 2022
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Sapna Moti Bhavnani


As a pioneer entrepreneur, Sapna Moti Bhavnani founded the hair salon Mad O Wot 16 years ago in Bombay, India. Through her versatile avatars such as writing a bitingly intimate weekly column for Mumbai Mirror and Mid-Day, authoring a self-help book for teenage girls Style O Wot, launching the avant-garde clothing line SoFake, to producing One Billion Rising at Carter Road (2013), acting in award-winning plays like NIRBHAYA – a searing testimonial play which won the Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award, The Fringe First Award and The Angel Herald Award in 2013 for cracking open the cone of silence around sexual and gender-based violence in India to JATINGA in 2017 –inspired by Kamathipura and highlights human trafficking worldwide; she traverses mainstream success with just as much ease as she skirts the underground youth art and culture movement.

Lately Sapna has been using filmmaking to give her activism a new voice. She is best known as Producer/Director of her award winning documentary Sindhustan. Sindhustan has won 12 Awards and travelled to 23 festivals and is now streaming online on MovieSaints.

Actor, spoken word artist, hair stylist, writer, director, producer - Sapna embodies it all as a visionary and a change maker. In July 2020 she launched her production company called Wench Films to promote female talent from India to the world and keeping that philosophy in mind also launched a successful Edition 1 of Wench Film Festival in March 2021 introducing 81 new women talent to the world. She has just completed her feature My Dog IS Sick which had its debut at the prestigious Visions Du Reel Film Market in April 2021 and had its World Premiere in August 2021 at the Prestigious New Horizons International Film Festival in Poland. The story for her next feature Bearlike Man was an Official Selection at BIFAN making her the first Indian woman director to ever be selected at the market. She is currently editing her horror short Cataclysm, developing a VR series I Did Not Scream and writing a book - Chapter One for Harper Collins.

The rest, like they say is herstory.

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Director Statement

As a child, all the super heroes I admired wore masks. I also wanted to be one.
These days women are perceived as strong because we can run a household, raise children and husbands, earn a mean salary and also find time to do some weight lifting to get…stronger. We start believing in this life and work ourselves into a frenzy. Alone and lonely. And Strong.

We disguise our bruises by buying the best foundation there is in the market. Contour our cheeks bones till they look like the mountains of Kanchenjunga and define our eyebrows to set a horizon for ourselves. Perfumes hide the smell of decay and hair colour the grey skies above.

Because the mask is your face, the face becomes a mask. Slowly.

I’m not saying there is anything wrong in grooming oneself. But we start with our face and hair and continue with our body and soul. I’m not saying that is wrong as well. It’s a choice.

Strong is the weakest MASK.

But the tide has changed again, I have stopped judging masks and people who wear them for I am one of them. I am understanding the world that lies inside can be more fascinating than the one outside. A doorway of sorts. I am finding solace in wearing a mask. Not to get lost in but to be found.