Every Now and Then Girls (CBFC)

Avaar Navaar Chhoriyaan (Every Now and Then Girls…) is a stop motion animation which is an adaptation of the Rajasthani folktale ‘Dohri Joon’.

What attracted us to this folktale was how, through the two main girl protagonists, it imaginatively and playfully poses a challenge to the normatives of patriarchy and heterosexuality.

Our screenplay adapts this folktale and locates it in a small town, Sheoganj (Rajasthan, India)to retell it in the contemporary time. The screenplay has three non-human narrators, the Tiddi(locust), Danda Thhor(a succulent plant) and Sarus crane. Each of the narrators tells the story of two girls. These stories revolve around oppressive patriarchal structures; the desire to challenge, change or leave behind these structures; friendships between women and the possibility of liberatory imagined futures.

Taking a cue from the folktale form, the film makes use of non-linear storytelling and magic realism to unfold the three stories which are being told to a group of curious and giggly young girls.