Ridhima Sharma
The Heartbroken Lover
Tea and sympathy for heartbroken lovers at the innovative neighbourhood chaiwallah
Year:
2021
Length:
10 min
Country:
India
Language:
Hindi
Director:
Ridhima Sharma
SYNOPSIS
Divyanshu and Rahul Batra, 21 and 18 year old boys from a North Indian town Dehradun are on a mission. Having experienced heartbreak during the lockdown, they opened the DilTuta Aashiq Chaiwala (The Heartbroken Lover Tea Shop) which they see as “more than a business – a platform for the heartbroken”.
about the director
Ridhima Sharma is a PhD canditate in the at the Department for the Study of Religion at University of Toronto. Her dissertation is an anthropological study of the Hindu landscape in contemporary North India and its intersections – conceptual, material, and discursive – with work, service, and entrepreneurship. Her research is supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation’s dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Connaught Fellowship, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Mary H. Beatty Scholarship, Department of the Study of Religion Award, Social Justice Fellowship, among others.