Special screening of Goldfish in Delhi

A special screening of Goldfish, directed by Pushan Kripalani and starring veteran actress Deepti Naval and Kalki Koechlin, was organised in the capital recently. Last year, Goldfish premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and was selected for the IFFI (International Film Festival of India) in Goa. The screenplay is written by Pushan Kripalani and Arghya Lahiri, whose father suffered from dementia.

In the film, Anamika, a half-Indian half-English woman, returns home to the U.K. to deal with her mother’s dementia and the scars of her childhood. The cast includes Gordon Warnecke, Rajit Kapur, and Bharti Patel.

In a previous interview, Pushan Kripalani, who is directing a film after a gap of seven years, told Variety, "It’s very difficult to make independent cinema, as it does not get funded easily and so it’s taken me this long to get to make this film. I feel that dealing with larger questions is only possible by examining the smaller parts of human relationships. I feel that my job is to further the human conversation and this was a wonderful way to attempt to do that.”

Discussing the choice of the UK as the film's setting, Kriplani explained that being far away from India and in the U.K. provided him with insight into examining the concept of Indian identity. He told Variety, "When one examines the question of identity, it’s clearer when one has some distance from it. The Indian population in the U.K. is very well integrated into mainstream society. So, there’s an interesting tension between what we consider the Indian identity and the British Indian identity – they influence each other culturally."