A Mumbai feature film made at IITB, mentored by IDC film faculty, crewed with top Bollywood professionals and 40+ hands-on student assistants—using low-cost tech to democratise indigenous storytelling in the world’s most vibrant film industry.
Watch Download brochure PDF →A designer from Singapore is on her way to her father’s wedding. A house-help is on her day off. Two best friends wrestle with an impending arranged marriage. A female taxi driver reclaims the city at night. A star-struck small-town boy cruises in his uncle’s kaali-peeli. A call-centre exec buys a speedy new bike—while two thieves covet it.
It is just another day in the city of dreams.
Through intersecting lives over a single day, the film celebrates Mumbai’s restless spirit—its kindness of strangers, its refusal to quit, its quiet promise that tomorrow can be better. Safar Mein Sheher is ultimately a love-letter to a city that keeps welcoming dreamers and lets them shine.
Shot inside Powai campus and across Mumbai, Safar Mein Sheher is the first IITB feature produced in-house: independent-cinema spirit, industry-grade talent, student energy. It links our design & visual-communication students directly to Bollywood—proving that accessible technology and lower financial stakes can still put indigenous stories on global screens.
“Safar mein Sheher is an exploration of life in any modern city. Mumbai is one city I know closely. We have presented the diversity of the city with a range of characters as they go about their business in a day. A web of life unfolds, with its shares of joys and sadness, gravitas and wackiness.”
— Mazhar Q Kamran
| Story, Cinematography & Direction | Mazhar Q Kamran¹ |
| Screenplay | Pramod Singh & Mazhar Kamran |
| Music (Songs) | Ananda Bathena |
| Background Score | Madhav Aggarwal |
| Lyrics | Sayeed Quadri² |
| Editing | Aseem Sinha³ |
| Sound Design Supervision | P M Satheesh⁴ |
¹ DOP of cult classic Satya; director of Mohandas – official selection San Francisco, Fribourg & Innsbruck; Special Jury Prize, Innsbruck 2009.
² Sayeed Quadri has 4,085,113 monthly Spotify listeners; his song “Beete Lamhein” exceeds 170 million streams.
³ Editor of seven Shyam Benegal features (Mammo to Mujeeb) and 70+ titles over 25 years.
⁴ Sound designer on S S Rajamouli's Baahubali and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Kaminey.
First look—six journeys, one day, endless Mumbai.
Song promo feat. lyrics by Sayeed Quadri.
IIT-Bombay sits inside Mumbai—India’s film capital. This project brings alive a media-lab, lets students shadow A-list crews on projects, and seeds Studio K-Lab as the connecting bridge between institute and industry—exactly what alumni have requested for years.
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