The nation is a home. Community is a home. The body is a home. Modernity wanted to skip the gap between these homes ....

Exploring temporal movements of a banal urbanity through a cinematic experience- composed of vivid historical footage interwoven into the everyday hustle in the life of a modern Indian citizen; the film attempts to reflect on modernity in space and time in a manner that is true to a lived experience.

Buildings and Films  contribute significantly to our individual and collective identity.  A work of collaboration between an Architect and a Documentary Filmmaker, the film opens with glimpses of faces, spaces, and places fluctuating between a familiar past and present. Featuring four distinct imaginations of an ideal modern Indian home, the plot unfolds in the inevitable co-dependence of city and cinema to represent a manifestation of modernity.

To elucidate the idea of the ‘body’ and the modernity it inhabits in the context of a nation, a city and a home; the film travels to pertinent modern Indian states of Baroda, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, and New Delhi.

Unveiling a 19th century ‘Indo-Western’ modern costume, the narrative opens with the home of the Gaekwads of Baroda– The Lukshmi Vilas Palace. In a utopian incarnation “where Rajasthan meets Venice and London meets Benaras,”an unrestrained ‘East meets West’ identity is born. Based on historical accounts, the footage focuses on the pursuit of a liberal culture as an external experience. Revealing elaborate interiors of the Palace through a lens of ambitiousness in the kind of patronage for arts and education, in a renewed perception of the society, and in the prospect of nation-building; the portrayal is one with a dual sense of intimacy and anonymity.

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