While I was teaching at IIT Gandhinagar, I started thinking more about the lives of young film aspirants in Kochi. The city, while being a metro, accommodates people from all sorts of backgrounds, and there are many youngsters who are passionate about getting into cinema.  There is often a gap between the cinema they dream about and their everyday reality. Ekadesham is, in a way, an attempt to merge those two worlds and explore what happens in that space between aspiration and reality.

The film is about characters who are in a kind of liminal state of existence. They are part of the cinema world and outside it at the same time. The uncertainty principle in physics is about the idea that you cannot determine the exact position of a particle without losing information about its momentum, and vice versa. I found that idea interesting in relation to these characters and the uncertain states they find themselves in, both in relation to cinema and to their interpersonal relationships.

I think I am more playful this time. There is a certain looseness to the film that I hadn’t explored in the same way in my earlier films. We made the film with a very small crew. Most of the time, the crew was just six people. Working in an intimate setting has its advantages and disadvantages, but I can say that I’d definitely do it again.

I am glad that the film is now ready and is reaching the right audience. After spending so much time making the film, the most interesting part for me is now seeing how people respond to it. I’m eager to see how audiences outside Kerala respond to a film that is so rooted in the lives and circumstances of people in Kochi.