A fever that burns twice as hot when your aunt walks by. Awkward.
9-year-old Bittu battles a mysterious fever, an affliction that deepens with an unfamiliar stirring within him as he watches his uncle’s young wife, Kusum, longing for a husband who toils far from home.
Direction
FTII precision—every humid frame drips with unspoken tension.
Cinematography
Bihar's claustrophobic interiors become a character.
Acting
Pallavi Vishwas carries absence like a physical weight.
Director
Shubham Sumit
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
FTII diploma films often mine rural Indian masculinity's psychic wounds—this continues that lineage with queasy precision.
The title's double meaning—physical illness and erotic fixation—collapses in that final humid close-up.
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