Film By: Arjun Lal & Priyanka Arora
Mentored By: Rajula Shah
City: Mumbai
Deewar Nāma (Chronicles of the Walls) is a reflective documentary that journeys through Mumbai’s walls — from the bustling lanes of Charni Road to the fading murals of Bandra — uncovering how they speak, remember, and sometimes disappear. What begins as a filmmaker’s casual curiosity about street art unfolds into a meditation on expression, erasure, and ownership. Through encounters with muralists, commuters, and anonymous street artists like Tyler, the film captures the fragile dance between creation and censorship, memory and renewal. Each story — of a woman seeing her past on a painted wall or an artist risking arrest for his message — reveals how the city’s surfaces mirror its soul. As the colours fade and the walls are repainted, Deewar Nama asks: when everyone can speak, what truly deserves to be said?