S5.E10 ∙ Echoes of the Brave

A Chinese detective writer has a risky plan to help women revenge their unpunished rapists. #MeToo? Let's take action. Inspired by Hitchcock's "Strangers on a train" (perfect alibi) and Michael Mann's "Collateral" (cab to "justice").

A documentary about a young woman murdered by her former boyfriend in New York in 2008 told through home movies, stills, and interviews with her family and friends.

This is a Los Angeles crime film. But it's as if several films on celluloid fused together and what you end up with is an art film that gets overwhelmed by urban documentary and then collapses into a narrative thriller. It's filled with hints, clues, evidence and misdirection. Images, ideas and sounds bounce off each other, mirror each other. In my film, the increasing association of the artist with criminality is central. The artist as a secret identity is a perfect and unexplored area for film noir.

The story is based on the novel "Eve Witness" by Retired Superintendent of police S K Umesh. Story revolves around an air hostess who was gone missing for more than 3 years.