You can use this for a film festival submission, press release, website description, or social media promotion. Logline: In the suffocating heat of a Rajasthani summer, an aging elder—revered as Jeth Ji —must choose between preserving a century-old family tradition or saving the crumbling relationships of the generation that no longer listens to him.
Set against the dust-drenched backdrops of rural Rajasthan, Jeth Ji unfolds over a single afternoon. The title character, the eldest male of the household, is preparing for the annual "Chabutra Pe Charcha"—a ritualistic storytelling session that has defined his identity for decades. But this year, the courtyard is empty. His nephew’s daughter refuses to touch his feet. His son speaks in English acronyms. And the village well—the very source of the stories he tells—has run dry. Jeth Ji 2024 CineOn Short Film Www....
“With ‘Jeth Ji,’ we wanted to capture the quiet war between ‘tradition as performance’ and ‘tradition as truth.’ CineOn’s ethos of ‘small canvas, big emotion’ allowed us to shoot this entirely in a single courtyard using only available light. The heat you see on screen is real—48°C. The silence you hear is the sound of a generation learning to listen.” You can use this for a film festival