THE IDEA OF INDIA AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT
The narrative reveals our invisible thread of unity in diversity through the visible thread of light in the video timeline and stitches a billion voices into one song in the audio timeline. The invisible thread represented by the visible thread of light that binds all India as one family connecting the dots between multiple religions, regions, cultures, languages, festivals and dissolving our differences and distances at the speed of light. India is a journey you can’t complete in one lifetime but the thread of light travels across the country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Mumbai to Meghalaya at the speed of light, cinematically and metaphorically capturing a day in the life of India through time-lapse and timeless transitions, just like the national newspaper should by stitching thousands of miles geography together in split seconds through the medium of time-lapse and seamless light transitions that blur the boundaries as time travels at the speed of light.
Over a thousand forms of the same thread of light transform Temples, Churches, Mosques, Gurudwaras, Monasteries, Monuments, Gods, Idols and Statues across India. Light travels through trains, trucks, boats, rickshaws from one location to another occasion, from one region to another religion, dissolving our differences at the speed of light. The Visual Thread for this film is the travelling flickering festival of lights captured by multiple camera crews and hundreds of commissioned cinematographers and drone photographers and time-lapse content creators throughout the festive season from Navaratri Lights in October to Diwali Lights in November, Christmas Lights in December to Sankranti Lights in January at multiple locations across the country.
The musical narrative is inspired by the sound of the ektara (single string instrument). The one string that binds a billion voices into one song, delivering the Idea of India through the voices in our head. Celebrating the same thread of unity in diversity, adversity and festivity. The audio travels through a historical timeline of India and binds the speeches of our inspiring leaders into one national narrative, through song and speech, powered by the voices of National leaders from the past and the present; Mahatma Gandhi, Subash Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Indira Gandhi, AB Vajpayee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
