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Tehravin
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Local resident, Mahat Jalan, stars in “Tehravin”
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Parsippany resident, Mahat Jalan, is the lead role in professor in a college. Teaching hardly engrossed a short American film made recently on him. Restless he knew there was more to him than “depression.” The film “Tehravin” is about the merely teaching others. He wanted to be an actor mourning death of a relationship. Directed by that was bubbling in him and trying to gain promKartik Swaminathan. inence. So he left Mehsana for foreign shores to Mahat Jalan, son of Pramodbhai Jalan, an insurance genre of American films he knew he could express agent had left his professor job in an Ahmedabad his emotions. college and came to Parsippany in search of finding an emotional space for himself as a budding actor. After seeing his zeal for acting two youths one This short film had been featured in the New York forward to produce this film on “depression” and Lift-Off Film Festival 2020. Mahat seemed to fit the lead role.
Jalan studied in GD Arts college Palanpur and Mehsana and later came to Ahmedabad and was a showcase his talent. After studying for a while the from Mumbai and another from Israel Jalan came His role is simply to express his depression of losing
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Local resident, Mahat Jalan, stars in “Tehravin”
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his wife without speaking a word. And he does that very appropriately.
The film is based on the Hindu ritual where twelve days of mourning is common following death. This same theme brings out the best in Mahat when his wife leaves with her boyfriend after divorcing him.
For twelve days he keeps putting a cross on the calendar for each day of showing his sadness. On the 13th day, he comes out of depression despite having lost his wife to another man and is relieved of his misery as the future awaits him.
This short film has been hugely welcomed in social media and then it got pride of place in New York Lift-Off Film Festival 2020.
The film is written, edited, and directed by Kartik Swaminathan Venkatraman.
