Nine years after making his debut Thithi, which was received rapturously around the world, Raam Reddy returns with his much-awaited follow-up: The Fable, set in 1989 on a Himalayan orchard estate.
This visually arresting film follows Dev, a stoic estate owner who makes life-sized wings to soar above his land, grappling with unexplained fires consuming his land. The idyllic setting gradually reveals its hidden complexities by exploring societal hierarchies and class disparities weighed down by colonial inheritance and ecological concerns.
Shot on 16mm and taking inspiration from literary figures like Gabriel García Márquez and Haruki Murakami, Reddy crafts his unique brand of magical realism by immersing viewers in an otherworldly yet perceptible experience, leaving us guessing about the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
Raam Reddy
Raam Reddy is a writer and director who studied Direction at Prague Film School. In 2009, Raam wrote and published an English-language magic-realism novel titled It’s Raining in Maya. His debut feature film Thithi, an Indo-US production, won two Golden Leopards for Best Film and Best First Feature at the 2016 Locarno Festival. The film has since received over twenty awards at various film festivals including Palm Springs, Shanghai, Marrakech, and Mumbai. It was also invited to the New Directors/New Films program at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The film was a commercial success, running for close to 100 days in theatres in India while also streaming worldwide on Netflix. In February 2016, Raam Reddy was included in the “Forbes 30 Under 30” list of achievers. The Fable is his second feature film.
