Sumit Mishra

In a smog-choked village in Haryana, a retired professor turns to an outlawed ritual, crafting a calf doll from a stillborn's body, to save his cow from the urbanization slowly erasing his rural world.

AGAM is a film based on three stories set in the backdrop of Varanasi, the city of Shiv (Religion), Shav (Corpse) and Tantra (Occult). "Yatra" is the story of the beginning of a journey of a traveler who has freed himself and moves ahead in his quest of knowledge and truth having broken the shackles and the impenetrable fort of the so called "God head and the Matha (Hindu Monastery)". "Manikarnika" is the story of a newlywed bride who tries to mould herself and conquer the ways of Manikarnika Ghat, smell and surrounding of burning corpses and rhythmic chanting of Ram Naam Satya Hai. "Deh-Tantra" is the story of uncontrived love, an attraction between a man and woman and the psychology of the masculine and feminine woven under the dark blanket of the so called and age-old established occult and ultimately overruling all the occult disciplinary and surrendering themselves to the love and physical attraction.

A middle-aged couple in Darbhanga was in financial trouble and had a loan payment due the following day. The unemployed husband then made the decision to steal his wife's valuables and go on a voyage of guilt in order to solve the problem.

A pair of unlikely characters sharing a drink with each other. As they find a space of familiarity, and perhaps, even warmth and friendship, the narrative further comes to be marked by instances of humour, a suggestion of isolation that often plagues existence in the urban space, also the starting point of pursuits of economic and social mobility, and an overlap between two disparate classes.