With black drapes covering the walls and sets made of everything from old liquor bottles to shampoo containers, writer and filmmaker Neha Singh has turned her Madh Island home into a studio since the past few days, while shooting her new film, Chitrangada 2020, based on Rabindranath Tagore's play. "I have chosen that bit from Tagore's Chitrangada where she undergoes a transformation from a not-so-feminine warrior princess to a beautiful woman in her love for Arjun, and given it a contemporary twist which includes Instagram chats. There are elements of dastangoi, puppetry and theatre, all in a 12-minute film," says the filmmaker. Like Singh, around 15 other filmmakers from across India are also currently in the thick of their shoots for short films based on play scripts for The Company Theatre's (TCT) festival, TheatreFilmTheatre.

Scene from Chitrangada 2020