Lost In Teleportation

In the very near future, teleportation is commonplace and is used for intercity travel, having completely supplanted commercial aviation. Karan Varma, an IT employee, is returning to Pune from a business trip in Delhi. He gets into the departure booth in Delhi but never reaches Pune. His pregnant wife, Riya, must now fight the system to get him back. From dealing with lawyers to receiving threats and being publicly shamed by the media, she goes through an excruciating struggle but to no avail. In the end, she is presented with an offer: she can either receive an imperfect, 83% accurate clone of her husband or a large sum of money that will ensure a safe future for her child.

“The idea of this film came about when I was watching a video about teleportation on Youtube. It wasn’t too big a leap to imagine a future where such a technology becomes commonplace and then something goes wrong with it. But the motivation to place it within the structure of a satire stemmed from the way our interactions with technology have created a new kind of bureaucratic hell for us in the present. We have given up all of our data to tech giants and they know more about us than we even know about ourselves. It is only a matter of time before our bodies become nothing more than data as well. We live in a completely unbalanced system where the consumer is at the mercy of the corporation and has lost all of his agency. This film is a comment on our current relation with technology viewed through the lens of a sci-fi premise.”