City of Liberation

The engaging urban minimal aesthetic of award-winning design studio, Bombay Atelier, comes to life in the form of a debut film that founder and creative director Farzin Adenwalla produced together with Delhi based filmmaker Abhilaash Sahu of Nudo Films. The studio’s ‘Crow’ chair becomes the catalyst for the film’s core theme of urban isolation, weaving several cinematic elements and symbolic references to the crow, narrated in the lyrical sounds of the Urdu language. Conceptualized in three stages and set within a bleak yet poetic urban environment, the film follows a young man (played by Mujahid Habib, India’s national pioneering parkour champion) as he ventures around the city, experiencing an acute sense of isolation, overcoming mental and physical barriers to finally reach his destination. Abhilaash Sahu- Director & Co-Producer Farzin Adenwalla - Creative Director, Script Writer & Co-Producer Mujahid Habib - Athlete Lokesh Khatri- Director of Photography Nikhil Yadav- Editor Veer Supunya Devavrat - Editor Ujjwal Dubey - Clothing

Bombay Atelier’s urban minimal aesthetic comes to life in the studio’s debut film

City of Liberation (Shehr-E-Nijaat) was created by the studio’s founder Farzin Adenwalla in collaboration with filmmaker Abhilaash Sahu of Nudo Films. The Crow chair is central to the film’s theme of urban isolation; cinematic elements, symbolic references and the lyrical Urdu language are interwoven in a poetic and sparse imagination of a young man as he navigates through New Delhi

Film courtesy of Bombay Atelier