FILM TITLE

A Boy Who Dreamt Of Electricity

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22nd May 2025 | 02:00 PM
Stein Auditorium

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Image-Description
Country
India
Genre

Drama

Language
Rajasthani
Duration
73 mins
Director

Jigar Nagda

Festival And Awards

Kolkata International Film Festival; Winner Best Film - Jaipur International film Festival; Indian Film Festival Stuttgart  ; Sharjah International Film Festival;  Jaffna International film Festival; Vaasa Nature Wildlife Film Festival, Finland; Fort Lauderdale International film Festival, USA

Synopsis

In a tribal community a young man, Bheru, is struggling to make the family farm work and provide alongside his father to help his ailing mother. Due to a lack of electricity in their home several marriage proposals fall through bringing a sense of shame on the family as well as mounting  debts. Confiding in his best friend he musters the confidence to start work and heads into the city where he experiences solar power. He begins his quest to bring electricity to his desolate home but is too late to help his mother as she passes away from illness. Fighting  against his father he finally succeeds and begins to start planning his new married life, safe in the knowledge that his future wife will not suffer the same consequences.