Private Project

The Tent

Chezan and Rumi have gone camping in the Sahyadris. They set off into the woods, engrossed in a fun conversation about each other’s zany secrets. But with every twist of the trail, many hidden truths come to the fore. The conversation soon catches a sinister drift. Will they accept each other after knowing who they really are?

  • Aditya Sane
    Writer
    A Day Off (2020)
  • Aditya Sane
    Director
    A Day Off (2020) | When The Caged Bird Sings (2024)
  • Nikita Naiknavare
    Producer
    Ab Toh Sab Bhagwan Bharose (2023)
  • Sourabh Zunjar
    Executive Producer
    Gharat Ganapati (2024) | Eka Kaleche Mani (Series)
  • Prashansa Sharma
    Cast
    Mirzapur (Series) | Dahaad (Series) | Loot Kaand (Series)
  • Karan Kishore
    Cast
    Roop Nagar Ke Cheetey (2022) | School College Ani Life (2023) | Ved (2024) | War 2 (2025)
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Comedy, Suspense
  • Runtime:
    29 minutes 56 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 25, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:5
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Aditya Sane

Aditya is a Pune based Filmmaker who began his creative journey as a VFX graduate 7 years ago. He began freelancing as an assistant director in Mumbai shortly thereafter, while simultaneously writing, directing and editing his own short films.

His first feature film A DAY OFF (2020) had its official premier at the Asian Film Festival of Los Angeles and won a Critics Choice Award at the Tagore International Film Festival. He has just completed a feature-length documentary WHEN THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. Shot over two years, the film looks at the reformist practices being undertaken to help solve issues faced by Muslim women in India.

Through a combination of experimentation and professional experience, Aditya has learned a great deal about mixing creative choices and developed a strong personal vision and hold over his craft. The Tent is his first collaboration with Lost The Plot.

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Director Statement

The Tent began as an intimate curiosity, a simple thought about what happens when two people who love each other and believe transparency is the purest form of connection, decide to share the “whole truth”. Somewhere along the way, that curiosity turned into a meditation on modern relationships, emotional fragility, and the limits of our ideals.

We live in a time which celebrates vulnerability, encourages openness and insists that love must hold space for every secret, every wound, every truth. Yet, when confronted with someone else’s uncomfortable honesty, we often retreat. We love the idea of truth, until we meet its weight.

Through Rumi and Chezan, I wanted to explore that contradiction. Two people who genuinely care for each other, who want to do the right thing, and yet stumble when theory meets reality. Their film’s central conflict is not dramatic in the traditional sense; it is raw, awkward, a very human kind. The kind we have all lived through. The kind that hurts and feels silly at the same time.

The forest around them mirrors that emotional journey. When they are connected, nature feels open and inviting. When doubt enters, the wilderness becomes unsettling, not because it changes, but because they do. The environment is not a backdrop, but a witness - a silent spirit that absorbs their turmoil and quietly returns them to stillness.

The film gently questions our current cultural moment: Are we becoming too performative in our pursuit of emotional correctness? Have we intellectualised connection to the point that we forget instinct, mystery, and the grace of imperfection?
Do we demand honesty while fearing the consequences of receiving it?

The Tent is not a critique, it is an observation. It doesn’t offer answers or villains. It simply sits with the vulnerability, the discomfort, and the tenderness that lives in real relationships.

At its core, this film believes one thing:
Love is not built by perfect ideals - it is shaped in the messy spaces between who we are and who we are trying to be.