Synopsis

A busy entrepreneur pauses her career to spend time with her ageing father, and both learn valuable lessons on happiness, love and living in the moment.

Project Papa, was partially crowdfunded (backed by 154 people worldwide) and made it’s way to being  Officially selected into 7 International Festivals and won the “Best Feature Film by a Debutant Director” at WoFF (World of Film International Festival) in Glasgow and “The Best Trailer Award” at CICFF (Calcutta International Cult Film Festival). 

I also was awarded “The Award for Excellence in the Field of Performing Arts”, by FICCI FLO in 2018.

Project Papa was released in PVR Cinemas across 7 cities in India on the 20th of April 2018, and received a phenomenal response from the audience!

The Film had it’s first digital release on iTunes and GooglePlay across 72 territories worldwide in 2019 and also got picked up by Netflix and was streaming Worldwide in 127 countries on Netflix between June 2020 and June 2023!

Watch it now on Itunes!

How Project Papa was born…

“Time is swiftly fleeting, and I’m not sure how long,

I will have you close to me, to show me right from wrong So I’ll seize the moment, and proudly tell you today

I love you, and need you Papa – every step of the way!”  

(an excerpt from a poem I wrote for the beginning and end credits of the film)

On a family holiday in December 2014, it hit me that my father was suddenly growing older. Also, my friends were losing their parents suddenly, without warning, and without having the chance to spend time with them.

We’re so busy, growing up, we often forget that our parents are growing old.

We neglect the importance of spending time with our parents, just learning from them and loving them, because we believe that ‘tomorrow’ will come. Well what if we lived like it just might not? Would priorities be different, would conversations be more, and could regret be less?

And so was born a story about the importance of spending time with loved ones in the NOW, explored through the relationship between a father and a daughter – a bond that I consider to be the most symbiotic and precious one in my life.

Project Papa began as a creative release from my manic lifestyle as I needed to share something with the world. But mostly, it’s been a manifestation of my innocent plan to spend more time with my Papa and create a memory with him that will last forever.

Project Papa the Journey…

In the news!

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This video Call Dad Now #TellHimNow began as research for Project Papa and celebrates this beautiful relationship of love between parent-child. I interviewed 35 different fathers and daughters in my living room and this short film was an outcome of those interviews.

Call Dad Now #TellHimNow went viral overnight with over 84,000 views in under 24 hours and was picked up by global media houses like The Huffington Post,The Daily Mail UK, NDTV, ScoopWhoop, Buzzfeed and many more. (The original video was deleted as a result of a glitch and re-uploaded later.)

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What they say…

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