Arnab

and the

Water
Hyacinths

In Pre-Production (2025)

A Modern History of Families, Nationhood, and the Indian Television News Media


The story of a Water Hyacinth,
with its roots on the surface of water,
far from the roots, proliferating in a pond where it eats all the sunlight, starving underwater plants of growth and nutrients and thriving as it eventually watches the pond die.

The film explores the core relationships between families which have left their roots far behind in new, urban satellite towns, trying to make sense of a rapidly changing post-modern world, informed of the world around them by the TV News, forever together around a living room television set - until it broke them apart.

A story on/of the personal/political.


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As a medium, Televisions’s work is parallel and interlinked with that of the Economy
Both disseminate information to help circulate goods
and socialise members of a society.

- Arvind Rajagopal,
In ‘Politics After Television’