Omkar Khandagale | India | 2025 | 21 mins. | Marathi | Filmmaker attending
An avid storyteller, my grandmother often narrated one about Mahabali, a king who offered his head when nothing remained. Looking back, I see this as my people’s story – those who offered their heads in the name of caste. Denied education for generations, a comb, mirror, and scissors were their only inheritance. Now, holding a camera, I return home, hoping to reshape our narrative.
Omkar Khandagale
Omkar is a Pune-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer exploring family, inheritance, and memory. Mentored by Fareeda Mehta, his thesis examined his industrial hometown’s decline and caste’s parasitical nature. His docu-feature was incubated at DRI’s LetsDoc Fellowship, winning the DocEdge Kolkata Award and the 2025 DocEdge Kolkata Lumiere Award for Best Emerging First-time Filmmaker.
Producer: Aparna Sanyal, Rajiv Mehrotra
Writer: Omkar Khandagale
Cinematographer: Omkar Khandagale
Editor: Omkar Khandagale
Sound: Rahul Rabha
Cast: Dattatray Khandagale, Sharda Khandagale, Omkar Khandagale
