Movies by Nina Sabnani

It's The Same Story

It's The Same Story

Two storytellers put forth their versions of the story of Shravan Kumar. The art for the film uses painted images from a wooden portable shrine called a Kaavad. The film is a collaborative work between traditional Kaavad storytellers and Kaavad artists from Rajasthan, together with the filmmaker. Combining lush animation with live-action, the film is an interpretation of two stories which are forever fused in the act of telling and retelling.

Home

Home

Home is an animated chronicle based on the lucid memories of the filmmaker’s 90 year-old-mother, Sheela Sabnani, who remembers and misses her two homes, her two fathers, her sewing machine, and the radio that were separated after the partition of India in 1947.