“The modern audiences are increasingly inclined on living by intent rather than being driven by circumstance.”- Barnali Ray Shukla (Writer, Film-maker & Poet)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with Writer, Filmmaker, and Poet Barnali Ray Shukla about her latest movie Joon.
Barnali Ray Shukla is a writer, filmmaker, and poet. She made her directorial debut with ‘Kucch Luv Jaisaa’, with Fox Star Studios. It is streaming on Amazon International and is also available to watch in India on Google TV. She was an assistant director on ‘Satya’ with Ram Gopal Varma, has worked on script selections with Sudhir Mishra, and has been in the writers’ room with Ekta Kapoor.
She was on the Selection Committee for Mumbai Academy of Moving Images for three years in a row and that honed her view of the world and opened a gaze, beyond Bollywood.
Her new Hindi feature film, JOON, has bagged 15 awards so far across Bolivia, Brazil, Norway, Sweden, Japan, the USA, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Croatia, India, and France.
Joon is now available across OTT platforms in India, the UK, the USA, Germany & Japan, it premiered on Amazon Prime Video. The viewers can also stream this festival favourite, with multiple awards on BookMyShow STREAM and AppleTV+.
She is currently in the early stages of casting for her next Hindi Feature Film ‘The Accident’, produced by The Production Headquarters, TPHQ, the makers of ‘Footprints on Water’ among other notable independent films. She is a producer of ‘Shameless’, a winner at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
