A journey of more than a decade-and-a-half, a National Award, and several acclaimed projects to his credit, but filmmaker Sudhanshu Saria hasn’t forgotten the isolation that he felt when first entering the industry. So, today, when he is in a position of power, he has found the ideal way to honour this bittersweet memory: championing new storytellers. “There was always a casual attempt to help as many people as I could. But with the new films that I am producing, it represents a concerted and formal push for the company to actually take ownership and launch two new voices,” Saria told Sunday mid-day about Pech and Silverfish, the upcoming productions from his banner Four Line.

With Pech, Saria is backing filmmaker Kumar Chheda, set to make his feature directorial debut. His Gujarati short, Dal Bhat, won the National Award in 2021. Silverfish will mark Raj Krishna as a first-time director. Krishna was one of the producers on Saria’s National Award-winning short Knock Knock Knock (2020).