Our Projects

Current slate

We are currently have a number of films under development, in production or post-production as well as films that have been released. Below is a snapshot of our current slate and the types of stories we are telling. For more information, please feel free to reach out.

Muhafiz (The Protector)

Muhafiz (The Protector) is a co-production with Lotus Visual Productions, Bombay Berlin Productions, written by Ashutosh Pathak and Pradipta Ray and directed by Pradipta Ray.

The short film focuses on a story after the 2002 Gujarat riots in India, where two men meet – one from a religious minority and one from a sexual minority – and in spite of their differences, one saves the other at the cost of revealing his sexual identity, and jeopardising his life.

The film premiered at the BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ film festival in London in March 2022 and is moving its way around a prestigious festival circuit.

Pradipta Ray is a transgender filmmaker, painter and animation artist based in Mumbai. Know for her work as the chief visualiser for Bollywood blockbusters such as Rang De Basanti, Heyy Babyy and Kambakht Ishq, Pradipta won the award for Best Emerging Filmmaker at the Kashish-Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2012 for her first short film Raat Baki.

Gair (Pariah)

Together with co-producers Lotus Visual Productions, SMR Entertainment and Unnati Sethi, Taran Tantra Telefilms is the co-producer of Gair (Pariah), a short film written and directed by Nishant Roy Bombarde focussing on caste discrimination in contemporary Delhi. Pariah premieres at the New York Indian Film Festival in May 2022 before moving on to a number of other festivals, including Kashish - the Mumbai Queer International Film Festival where it will run in competition.

Nishant Roy Bombarde is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter with experience as an Executive Producer on commercially successful and critically acclaimed films at Zee Studios. He won an Indian National Film Award winner for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director for his debut short film, Daaravtha (2015).

Untitled Documentary (Khamba)

Taran Tantra Telefilms is the lead producer of a feature-length documentary set in the world of Bollywood casting couches, prostitution and the nascent Indian porn industry.

The film is currently in post-production.

A Life A Rose

A Life A Rose is the debut feature film of Kaushik Ray. Fifty years after being forced apart from her childhood sweetheart at a Calcutta convent school, a retired professor heads to Paris, on a mission to track down her former lover and best friend, to see if she remembers their once-forbidden romance.