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Dakan


Aryan Malviya | India | 2025 | 25 mins. | Marwari | Filmmaker attending

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A boy wanders through his village carrying a colourless television – its blank screen mirroring the muted world around him. His search is not only for colour but for something deeper, something lost. Echoes of ancestral spirits, whispers of a dakan, and fragments of ritual blur the boundary between the living and the dead, the seen and the unseen. 

Aryan Malviya

Aryan Malviya

Aryan Malviya is a self-taught filmmaker from Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Shaping his cinematic voice outside film school, his work is marked by restraint – natural light, real locations, long takes and minimal intervention – allowing moments to unfold with honesty and patience. Inspired by Rajasthan’s villages, folklore and rural mythologies, Aryan blends oral traditions with contemporary cinematic language.

Writer : Aryan Malviya
Cinematographer : Shashank Sudhanshu
Editor : Aryan Malviya
Sound : Akshay Patil
Cast : Gaurav Malviya, Swati Vyas, Rajesh Vilayat

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