Filmmaker Debaditya Bandyopadhyay’s passion project, Ped Chalta Hai, will première in the Marché du Film section at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14. This is a global moment for a story that was born from the director’s travels. 

“During my travels through forest regions of Jharkhand, especially Palamu, I saw the emotional and environmental impact of deforestation and unchecked development on both land and people. I did not want to make a documentary. I wanted to tell a human story; Ped Chalta Hai uses suspense and emotional storytelling to explore environmental imbalance,” shared Bandyopadhyay. Starring Virendra Saxena and several local artistes from Jharkhand, the movie examines environmental imbalance.