Two Way Street (Asmit Pathare) India |

Two Way Street
Asmit Pathare
India. 2023. 22 min

An ordinary taxi ride becomes a battle-ground when the Taxi Driver refuses to enter a particular lane. The passenger, in turn, decides to not alight the vehicle until he reaches his destination. What ensues is a projection of an inherent bias of the taxi Driver against a particular community and the defiance of the Passenger to end up as a victim of discrimination.

ASMIT PATHARE

Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Actor and Stage Lighting Designer. Asmit’s films have been screened at MAMI, IFFLA, IDSFFK, SASFF and many other festivals.

His recent short film Two Way Street (2023) won the V Shantaram Golden Award for Direction at South Asian Short Film Fest. After being a Winner at the Best of India Short Film Festival, it qualified for the Academy Awards 2024.

As an actor, his latest work is Karan Gour’s much-awaited Fairy Folk which has travelled to Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne Indian Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival and was an Official Selection at MAMI 2023.

Asmit has designed lighting for theatre productions in English, Hindi and Gujarati. In 2017, he won the Mahindra Excellence In Theatre Award Award for Best Light Design for the play Elephant In The Room. He also worked as the First AD and Language Coach for lead actor Manoj Bajpayee in the Hindi film Aligarh (2017).