Websters Theatre | 29 September 2017 | 7 pm
Project Papa
Written & Directed by Kanika Batra
India | 2017 | 97′
With: Kanika Batra, Rakesh Batra, Sneha Kapoor
A father and a daughter- both striking reflections of each other, are at vastly different phases of their lives. The 29-year-old daughter, at the threshold of her career, believes that happiness is a thing of the future. The 64-year-old father, on the verge of retirement believes that happiness is a thing of the past. The film explores the journey of how they both come to realize the importance of being happy in the now.
Directors Bio:
Kanika Batra is a 31 year old filmmaker from Bangalore, India. She completed her Masters in Law from Kings College London, and after interning at the Supreme Court of London under Queen’s Council Toby Landau, and a brief stint of working with one of India’s top law firms, she combined her love for people and learning, and started a Learning and Development company, called Outperform.
Outperform caters to a niche set of clients, working with their talent to develop their professional and personal skills.
As a corporate speaker herself, Kanika has interacted with and run workshops for over 7,000 people across top firms like Goldman Sachs, Ernst and Young, Mercedes, Northern Trust and several others.
At the age of 9, she acted in and choreographed a mammoth children’s musical play that was written and directed by her father. With a live orchestra, cast and crew of over 70 people, ‘Angelina’ ran successfully for 3 years with 27 house-full shows across India. This introduced her to her love for theater, and since then she’s essayed the lead roles in several musical and non-musical plays.
Kanika has also played the lead in 2 feature films, Station and Joint Trip .True to her spirit of always wanting to learn and experience new things she started her production firm Metanoia Movies and has just written, directed, produced, and acted in her first feature film-Project Papa.
