GLITCH Film Festival Strange Love (Ajeeb Aashiq)

Through process-based filmmaking Ajeeb Aashiq explores the lives of working class gender outlaws, sex-workers, rebellious women, desire and friendship. The film invests less in narrative progression but instead allows the story to unfurl by exploring the physical and emotional landscapes of three main characters: Rani, Amal and Mumbai city itself. Amal is a trans rickshaw driver who often chauffeurs feminist singer and spoken word artist Amal (played by singer-songwriter Suman Sridhar) across the city at night. Ajeeb is an Urdu word for “strange or unexplainable” and “Aashiq” translates as “lover”. This film is primarily a story of desire – a desire to live and love beyond one’s reality…

Dir. Natasha Mendonca | 75 mins | India | 2016 | Screening with English subtitles

This film is F-rated. Films are given an F-rating if directed by women, written by women and/or present significant female characters on screen, in their own right. f-rated.org.