Indian drama “Kidney,” the second feature from filmmaking siblings Aakarsh and Agrim Sansanwal, has been boarded by Shiladitya Bora’s Platoon One Films, which joins as co-producer ahead of the film’s slot in the Critics’ Picks Competition at Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF).
The film is produced by Enfant Terrible Productions, the Mumbai outfit the brothers set up. Set in an isolated Indian village, it follows a young man and woman from feuding families who fall in love. When a quarrel over an inheritance revives old hostilities, their relationship comes under pressure from greed and treachery in a conflict not of their making.
“We made the film with very little money and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of spirit,” said Aakarsh Sansanwal. “When the budget ran out, the entire village, its farming community, stood behind us. They helped us through the hurdles and, in their own way,…
