2026 / 23' / English, Hindustani / India
✦ The World & The Self
In a tiny women’s only beauty parlour, generations of devoted customers, including the filmmaker’s family, reflect on letting their hair go grey. The film meanders between the intimate oasis of the Sunflower Chinese Beauty Parlour and the bustling city landscape outside.
Director(s) : Revantika Gupta
Producer(s) : Revantika Gupta
Cinematographer(s) : Revantika Gupta, Nayonika Gupta
Writer(s) : Revantika Gupta
Editor(s) : Revantika Gupta
Sound : Revantika Gupta
Music : Renditions by Anupama Gupta
Revantika Gupta is a PhD candidate in the Cinema Studies Department at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is working on a dissertation that aims to historicize the city of Delhi across moving-images.
She is interested in notions of loitering, gendered citizenship, public spaces, and hip-hop. As a creative organiser in Delhi, she has worked with street artists Bboys and Emcess on public art projects and festivals.
