After watching the documentary short that now accompanies The Deep, a book on Warli art as it happened to the Vayeda brothers, this writer was looking for apposite grammar. She needed the right syntactic setting to capture ‘flow’ as seamlessly in the written word as it permeates the film and pours out on to its players. Flow characterises the film. Maybe it’s natural for this stream of connectivity to stick out as a thematic epithet; the Warli tribe lives in harmony with the rivers, and Awashima in the Sea of Japan (where the brothers found family and fillip to hone their process) is bound by water on all sides, too.

Tushar and Mayur Vayeda