Growing up on a daily diet of Bollywood, Shubhashish Bhutiani wanted to make movies that were nothing like Bollywood. For his thesis at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Bhutiani shot a 20-minute short film inspired by one of his old teachers, who fought to protect a young Sikh student from the violence of the 1984 riots. Kush quickly made its way to film festivals and was shortlisted as one of 10 live-action shorts in the Oscar nomination race.The film didn’t get a nomination in the end, but Bhutiani is only getting started. Here, he talks movie love.
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