HOMEGROWN DYSTOPIA
India Today|February 12, 2024
Animator Ishan Shukla's 103-minute-long film Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, features an impressive global voice cast
Devarsi Ghosh
HOMEGROWN DYSTOPIA

While working in Singapore years ago, Ishan Shukla began doodling himself out of boredom. He had imagined a life of "creative jams and discussions", but as an animation professional, he found himself "a faceless, replaceable person no different from others".

One day, he replaced his head in his drawing with a box. Thus began Shukla's dystopian world of bag-heads, which has resulted in Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust.

The 103-minute-long animated film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on January 28. The film is set in the fictional country of Schirkoa, where citizens are forced to wear a bag over their heads, thereby eliminating difference and individuality. The protagonist 197A is an average bag-head until he falls in love with a free-spirited woman and finds himself caught between the extremes of an oppressive regime and a liberatory paradise with no limits.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة February 12, 2024 من India Today.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة February 12, 2024 من India Today.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.

المزيد من القصص من INDIA TODAY مشاهدة الكل
A Much-Needed Reality Check
India Today

A Much-Needed Reality Check

Too much central control, voter and cadre apathy, arbitrary candidate selection, all conspired to give the party a humbling lesson at the hustings. The high command can ignore it at their own peril

time-read
7 mins  |
June 17, 2024
The German Swiss Knife
India Today

The German Swiss Knife

The BMW XM, the latest from the German auto major's stable, represents the epitome of modern engineering.

time-read
3 mins  |
June 17, 2024
A Tale of Two Whiskies
India Today

A Tale of Two Whiskies

Industry leaders and start-ups alike are betting big on innovative, made-in-India whiskies

time-read
3 mins  |
June 17, 2024
BREAKFAST (AND MORE) AT TIFFANY'S
India Today

BREAKFAST (AND MORE) AT TIFFANY'S

Dubai's new Blue Box Café from Tiffany & Co. fulfils all your Audrey Hepburn dreams to the fullest

time-read
2 mins  |
June 17, 2024
Mistress of Spices
India Today

Mistress of Spices

Things just got more spicy at The Imperial, New Delhi, as the hotel launched an all-new menu for its famed restaurant The Spice Route-the first such endeavour in the past 27 years.

time-read
1 min  |
June 17, 2024
Does Size Matter?
India Today

Does Size Matter?

Spice brings you an exclusive first look of the thinner and sharper newly released iPad Air and iPad Pro

time-read
3 mins  |
June 17, 2024
This Party's Getting Started
India Today

This Party's Getting Started

Give your inner culture vulture wings to soar with Spice's round up of some of the most feted festivals from around the globe.

time-read
5 mins  |
June 17, 2024
Ageing Gracefully
India Today

Ageing Gracefully

Purveyor of the robust cuisine of the Northwest Frontier, Bukhara at the ITC Maurya is still going strong at 45.

time-read
2 mins  |
June 17, 2024
ADVENTURES IN MOROCCO
India Today

ADVENTURES IN MOROCCO

A road trip crisscrossing the breathtaking Atlas Mountains, interspersed with some good old fashioned dune bashing in the Sahara desert serves up the perfect recipe of a Matinee classic in the Mercedes-Benz GLS.

time-read
3 mins  |
June 17, 2024
Redefining Adornment
India Today

Redefining Adornment

Contemporarising the art of craft when it comes to jewellery requires ingenuity, innovation and imagination. Here are our top picks from the eighth edition of GemGenève that are driving the new narrative.

time-read
4 mins  |
June 17, 2024