Celebrated filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee, will be in conversation with culture editor Madhuri Sastry, and contributor Aditya Shrikrishna on Thursday, July 3rd at 8.30PM IST (11AM EST), as a part of our ongoing Dispatches series.

The event is free, but registration is required. Register here.

They will unpack the politics, and pressures behind Banerjee’s unreleased  film, Tees.

“Tees is a searing critique of the state and the people, and in its present form, a red flag for the Indian censor board and the government,” write Aditya Shrikrishna and Subrat Beura in their analysis of the film.

The conversation will explore how the film’s refusal to conform has kept it in limbo, what it means to make political cinema under the shadow of censorship, and why storytelling remains one of the most powerful modes of resistance.

Please register here for the link, reminder, receive exclusive post-event analysis from our culture editor.

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Dibakar Banerjee is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer and advertisement-filmmaker known for his work in several Hindi films, including Khosla ka Ghosla! (2006), Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015), Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar (2021) and Shanghai (2012).

Aditya Shrikrishna is an independent writer and film critic based in India. He is a member of Film Critics Guild, and the co-founder of The Other Banana, a podcast on South Indian cinema.

Subrat Beura has been with the Film Society of Bhubaneswar since 2004, organizing documentary and feature film festivals. He has served as jury at Kolkata & Bangalore international film festivals. He writes a regular column on cinema for Orissa Post.

Madhuri Sastry is the Culture Editor at The Polis Project. Her writing has appeared in several publications including The Nation, New York Magazine, and Serious Eats.