Vakeel Babu
Synopsis:
Shiraz Hassan chases his dreams of securing his own law chamber. He runs his own digital video channel with the hope of turning his subscribers into future clients.
His mother, a retired lawyer herself, thinks it is a distraction. As fate has it, his channel lands him a call for a new case- an anonymous victim with a powerful abuser.
Is he ready to take on the challenge, or will he cave under the pressures of the real world?
Vakeel Babu traces Shiraz’s journey of transformation as he rediscovers his purpose in the justice system.
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Director
Sumit Purohit is a filmmaker, writer, editor and a visual artist.
Born in the hill town of Srinagar Garhwal (Uttarakhand, INDIA), Sumit
graduated in Art History and Aesthetics from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda.
Sumit’s directorial debut was with an experimental short documentary was ‘I Woke Up One Morning & Found Myself Famous’, which was widely screened in film festivals across the country.
As a self-taught editor, Sumit also dabbled as a trailer/promo editor, working on various award-winning films.
Recently, he wrote and edited ‘ Scam 1992 : The Harshad Mehta Story’, a critically acclaimed 10-part series based on the book by journalists Sucheta Dalal and Debashis Basu.
In addition, he was the co-writer on the Hindi Film ‘Bangistan’, a black comedy, and Amazon Prime Video’s International Emmy nominated Indian original series ‘Inside Edge’.