Sarson Ka Saag

A mother’s voice guides her son’s hands through the making of a popular Punjabi delicacy called ‘Sarson Ka Saag’, meaning Mustard Greens. This is him imitating his mother’s movements; his childhood observations of her over the kitchen slab, of attempting to inherit broken pieces of a partitioned culture. It’s a relationship maintained over audio notes and some shreds of fond memories. Made on b/w 16mm film, the film uses mustard and spices in its developing process. Physical testaments of mustard leaves and stains from spices form a gastronomical archive.

Premiered at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Shown at IDSFFK Kerala, Harkat, Emami Experimental Film Festival, Strangloscope Brazil, LaborBerlin.

16mm film | 9.26 | Hindi 

Projection: Digital/ 16mm