2026 / 25' / Hindi / India
✦ Shorts
Two friends, a domestic worker and a beautician, daily log into the BGMI combat game where they slip briefly out of their real lives. Through their avatars, they explore different selves, anonymity and, intimacy inside the virtual world of the game. As the battlefield becomes as much about companionship and transgression, as it is about thrill, the docu-fiction explores how players reimagine their bodies and construct personas, revealing a landscape of desire and performance.
Director(s) : Gurleen Grewal
Producer(s) : Shabani Hassanwalia, for The Third Eye
Cinematographer(s) : Gurleen Grewal
Writer(s) : Gurleen Grewal
Editor(s) : Gurleen Grewal
Sound : Anahad Narain
Gurleen Grewal is a filmmaker and editor interested in examining the various structures and narratives found in the everyday. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Design and a PG Diploma in Creative Documentary Filmmaking from the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication.
Her first film, Somewhere Near and Far, won the Best Short Documentary award at IDSFFK, Kerala. She currently works as a Video Producer and Associate Editor at The Third Eye, a feminist think tank based in Delhi and powered by Nirantar Trust.
