Experiencing Interruptions?

PROTABORTAN : AN ANTI RAGGING FILM

Set against the everyday rhythm of a college campus, the film follows Rohan, a quiet first-year student whose openness about his sexuality makes him an easy target for ragging. What begins as light interaction slowly slips into humiliation, exposing how cruelty can hide behind routine gestures and familiar spaces.

Pulled into the center of ridicule, Rohan’s dignity is stripped away when his humiliation is filmed and circulated, turning a private moment of vulnerability into public spectacle. The experience does not end at the college gates; it follows him home, into silence, fractured relationships, and an overwhelming sense of isolation.

Through Rohan’s emotional journey, the film captures the darker undercurrents of society—those rarely spoken of yet deeply present—where prejudice, indifference, and casual violence coexist with everyday life. Told with restraint and intimacy, the story invites the audience to witness, rather than judge, a reality that often remains unseen.

  • Mayukh Chatterjee
    Director
    CREADIT CARD
  • REYA BANERJEE
    Writer
  • SHIBAM MIDYA
    Key Cast
    "ROHAN"
  • SRIJITA SARKAR
    Key Cast
  • CHANDRANI CHAKRABORTY
    Key Cast
  • RIYA MUKHERJEE
    Key Cast
    "MAA"
  • Mayukh Chatterjee
    Editor
    CREDIT CARD
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Student, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 26 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 2, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    8,500 INR
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Bengali, English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Future Institute of Engineering & Management
  • Future Institute of Engineering & Management
    SONARPUR
    India
Director Biography - Mayukh Chatterjee

Mayukn Chatterjee is an independent filmmaker, actor, and editor based in Kolkata, India. With a background in cinema and mass communication, his work is rooted in social realism and explores themes of faith, numan conflict, identity, and urban struggle Having experience across acting writing, editing, and direction, he approaches filmmaking as a deeply personal and collaborative process.His films focus on ordinary lives shaped by economic pressure, belief systems, and moral ambiguity, often blending quiet realism with emotional intensity. Credit-Card marks his continued interest in examining contemporary human conditions through a grounded, cinematic lens.

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Director Statement

This film was born out of a desire to illuminate the unseen shadows that often linger within spaces we consider safe. College is frequently imagined as a site of discovery, friendship, and growth, yet for some, it is also a landscape where vulnerability is exploited and cruelty masquerades as tradition.

Rohan’s story is not extraordinary in its events, but it is extraordinary in its quiet suffering. By tracing his experience—from casual interaction to public humiliation—we explore how everyday gestures can carry insidious weight, and how moments of intimacy can be weaponized. I wanted the audience to feel the gradual erosion of dignity, the lingering echo of isolation, and the silent fracture it creates in relationships and self-perception.

The camera is deliberate, intimate, often lingering, because this story demands that we witness without distraction. There is no need for sensationalism; the horror of this experience lies in its ordinariness, in how effortlessly society allows prejudice, indifference, and casual violence to coexist with routine life.

This film is my attempt to give voice to that quiet suffering, to hold a mirror to the societal currents we often choose to ignore, and to invite reflection, empathy, and perhaps discomfort. It is a story told with restraint because the truth, when lived, is already unsettling enough.

— Mayukh Chatterjee