
In a war-torn land, a boy mistakes a discarded dildo for a weapon and strikes back at the kids who cast him out, unknowingly mimicking the violence that surrounds him.
What remains when violence becomes play, and play begins to mirror the world we live in? This haunting question drives a cinematic exploration blurring the boundaries between innocence and brutality, between children’s games and the wars adults wage. Set against a backdrop where destruction has become the new normal, the film examines how power structures emerge and evolve in the most unlikely circumstances.
Through the lens of childhood, we witness the uncomfortable truth that the seeds of dominance and submission are planted early, taking root in the fertile ground of a world already scarred by conflict. A group of boys navigate the remnants left behind, moving through terrain both physical and psychological, where abandoned spaces become playgrounds and debris transforms into tools of their own primitive society.
One boy holds power with the natural authority of those born to command, while another burns with quiet desperation, his ambition as palpable as hunger. The rest follow, unquestioning and unaware, caught in the gravitational pull of power they neither fully understand nor dare to challenge. Their interactions reveal the raw mechanics of hierarchy, stripped of adult pretense and social conditioning.
When a rubber object shaped like desire appears, the balance of power begins to shake. This catalyst becomes the fulcrum upon which their constructed order tilts toward chaos. The film asks not just what we leave behind for the next generation, but what they make of the ruins we’ve created, and whether redemption is possible when innocence itself becomes a casualty of our inherited violence.

Dulo is our attempt at uncompromising cinema that invites viewers to see conflict through eyes unclouded by adult cynicism, something we hope will resonate long after the credits roll.
presenting GAURAV and ABBAS in DULO
cinematography by MIHIR FICHADIYA edited by ADEETH BHARDWAJ color by SURAJ SINGH vfx supervision by SATYAJEET SAMAL costume by AMRUTA DATE and HEERAL SOLANKI executive producer MEDHA KHANNA and ROSHIL VERMA sound and music by KRISHNA PUROHIT written and directed by MEHKANSH KATHURIA produced by AJINKYA HUKERIKAR