Naman Ramachandran Feature film project “The Catch” (Ghol), aims to juxtapose the Indian subcontinent’s troubled and violent history with the present day while telling a simple human tale.The film will follow Hussain Mirza, an impoverished trawler fisherman on the polluted Indian side of the Arabian Sea.
When he strays across the unmarked marine border into Pakistani waters, he is imprisoned for years while his family was killed in the 2002 Gujarat pogrom.
His fortunes seemingly change when he nets a shoal of the rare and expensive Ghol fish, every fisherman’s dream catch, prized for its organs in China, Japan and Singapore.
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