Our Top 10 Books for Screen for July 2023
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The Awasthis of Aamnagri
Genre: Family Drama
Logline: Families are like the sweet mangoes of Aamnagri—messy, filled with juicy secrets, and sticking together through all times. The Awasthis of Aamnagri are the quintessential Indian family, who bumble through their lives encountering missing jewels and stolen eggs, deaths foretold, averted, and a suspected suicide with no body. Follow the Awasthi family as they discover that happy endings come for a price—of truth and love.
Vaapsi
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Logline: Maya mysteriously disappears from her home. When she is found, she does not recognize any of her family members - not even her own husband Varun. This is because she has lost her memory. But why is it that her husband desires her but does not desire for her memory to return?
Rakshasi’s Rose Garden
Genre: Drama | Fantasy
Logline: Ira is a supernatural being, a Rakshasi, who has been living in secret among humans for centuries. She uses her magical powers to secretly bring justice down on sexual predators, fixing the wrongs that society can’t or won’t fix itself. She has the most beautiful rose garden but what nobody knows is that her garden is actually a magical prison where she captures the life essence of the predators she is hunting down. But, when Ira’s powers suddenly start becoming unpredictable, she draws attention to herself and her true nature is close to being revealed and her existence is put into jeopardy.
The Chutney Called Marriage
Genre: Family Comedy
Logline: Manav - an ordinary husband, just like coriander- more or less useless, needed just at the end. Piya - the melodramatic wife, master in the art of making even the simplest things complicated, just like the Chili. Maa - Manav's mother- the Mint factor in their life. Follow the journey of a typical Indian husband and how his chutney of life gets spicier with lemony Leena, Manav's sister, and salty Mummy ji, Piya's mother. With everyone trying to take credit for all the flavours, would they be able to make the perfect chutney?
The Vimana Transcripts
Genre: Sci-Fi | Thriller
Logline: Circa 2023. The Voyager 1 sends transcripts all over Earth promising doomsday in 36 hours if an ancient Tatva stored in a Vimana is not found. Indian leaders turn to an aging language and religion professors for answers to the threat's validity and source, while Vikram Rathod, treasure hunter extraordinaire tries to find this Vimana to save the lives of everyone he loves. But how can one Tatva save the entire planet?
Ek Choti Si Lambi Doori
Genre: Social Drama
Logline: All hell breaks loose in a caste-infested village when a lower cast girl takes on the mighty upper castes by insisting that her groom must come to marry her on horseback - a privilege solely enjoyed by the upper castes since time immemorial.
Marginlands
Genre: Environmental Documentary
Logline: Climate change and human-induced disasters have pushed India’s most beautiful landscapes to the precipice of destruction. Environmentalist Arati Kumar-Rao journeys to these marginlands, listening intently to their inhabitants, paying close attention to each fissure, fold, and ripple, as she documents the misguided decisions, wilfully ignored warnings and disregarded evidence that have brought us almost to a point of no return. Combining enthralling nature writing and journalism with immersive art and photography, Marginlands is an urgent, vital work by a passionate chronicler of our environment.
Goner
Genre: Young Adult | Drama
Logline: A mid-twenties crisis, a broken home and memories of abuse drive our self-sabotaging, disturbed protagonist down a consistent downward spiral as she struggles to reclaim her life. With no job, a failing art career, months of expensive therapy, a cast on her leg, and a mystery man in her life, will she be able to defeat her infamous trait of self-sabotage and maneuver her way through some hard-hitting truths?
Coco Pani
Genre: Thriller | Horror
Logline: Despite being warned of revenge-seeking ghosts, two wealthy twin brothers host their 40th birthday at their lavish bungalow in Alibag, leading to a rampage, and an ending that no one expected.
The UnBurn Desire
Genre: Supernatural | Thriller
Logline: Mirroring the innate truth of Karma, The UnBurn Desire takes you on a soulful journey highlighting the profound relationship between a father and a son, as well as a daughter searching for ways to expel her mother from her sufferings. With a thread that intricately binds them all, will they be able to defy the journey of souls or come to terms with the harsh reality of death?