BISCUIT

Set in a modest North Indian household, the film follows twelve-year-old Lucky, a boy who begins sharing leftover biscuits from his school tiffin with a starving black street dog. What begins as a simple, private act of kindness soon collides with his father’s rigid worldview. As a strict Brahmin, the father has long viewed strays as ritually impure. When Lucky’s grades begin to slip, the father’s ingrained prejudice fuses with genuine parental worry, and his quiet disgust sharpens into open anger. The dog is banished from their gate. But when Lucky is severely injured in a sudden road accident, the family is plunged into crisis. In the hospital, a local astrologer suggests a traditional remedy for the boy’s dosha: feeding a black street dog. The film presents this spiritual diagnosis objectively—leaving the audience to interpret it as fate, mere coincidence, or nothing at all. What remains is a father’s sudden, devastating realization that his son was already performing this exact "remedy," driven by nothing more than a desire to feed the hungry.

Directed by

Snigdha Chandan

Written by

Snigdha Chandan