story–It is this restriction on self-expression that birthed the idea of Hellaro in director Abhishek Shah’s mind. He recalled a folklore he had once heard, but decided to imagine a world where the essence of this story was flipped. Garba, which is Gujarati folk dance form, is a medium of expression. When the beats fall on the dhol, it is hard for anyone (yes, non-Gujaratis even) to hold themselves back. And like most Indian dance forms, it is also an offering to a deity, a Goddess, and therefore, is primarily a woman’s domain. But imagine a place and time where the men danced their hearts out in the open, while the women were confined to their homes, prohibited from this expression?
And imagine what would happen when the women finally had enough and rebelled? There would be an outburst of uncontrolled expression. There would be Hellaro, which means an outburst.
Director: Abhishek Shah
Writer: Prateek Gupta, Saumya Joshi, Abhishek Shah
