Sound is intimate. It leans over and bids us to follow. And, as we scamper behind it, our memory stacks trills, clicks and clunks over heavy thuds and thumps. Sound — with and without a visual cue — evolves in character. For instance, try to hear an entangled mass of VFX tape being shaken over and over; it’s distracting until supplemented with visuals of the gentle swishing of a bush. Koyel Sahoo and Phalguni Vittal Rao, students of Drama School Mumbai (DSM), were perhaps attracted by this mystifying nature of sound.

Koyel Sahoo