A special film tie-in edition of the book, Forgetting, featuring the stories 'Mine' and 'Ambush', adapted for the screen as Joram, now a multiple-award-winning motion picture starring Manoj Bajpayee and produced by Zee Studios, Devashish Makhija, and Anupama Bose.
Time is arguably our biggest enemy. And memory, perhaps, our greatest curse. Which makes forgetting the hardest thing to do.
Identical-twin rickshaw drivers are wrongly suspected of terrorism in paranoid Bombay; a Calcutta merchant envies each saree he sells for the intimacy it'll share with the woman who buys it; an illicit love affair is conducted over nine potent text messages; a lonely astronaut sings out loud, hoping his voice will find an ear somewhere; adivasis, jawans, Naxalites, policemen and journalists in Orissa are caught in a web of violence unleashed on them by both their own histories and that of a nation helplessly repeating it.
About the Author
Devashish Makhija has written and directed the full-length award-winning feature films 'Joram', 'Bhonsle' and 'Ajji', all three of which screened at numerous international film festivals, winning awards widely; and the multiple-award-winning short films 'Cycle', 'Cheepatakadumpa', 'Taandav', 'El'ayichi', 'Agli Baar', 'Rahim Murge pe Mat ro', 'Absent', and 'Happy'.
'Bhonsle' (winner of a National Award in 2021) is streaming on Sony Liv. 'Joram' (winner of two Filmfare Awards in 2024) and 'Ajji' are on Amazon Prime Video.
Makhija is a multi-practice artist. He has had his own solo art show 'Occupying Silence', and is a prolific writer, having written the bestselling children's books 'When Ali became Bajrangbali', 'Why Paploo was Perplexed', 'We are The Dancing Forest', and the multiple-award-winning YA novel 'Oonga'.
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