Renowned Australian film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas who found it to be a “radicalising experience”, said it could “superficially be described as a feminist experimental horror film”. The film travelled to 21 festivals and won nine awards. My Dog is Sick comes close on the heels of Sindhustan (2019), Bhavnani’s last feature-length documentary about the migration story of the Sindhi community told through her own familial history and the tattoos on her body.
I think that’s because Sapna has been through so much, and all those experiences shine through in whatever she does, even her home,” Deshpande feels. At one point, I had this feeling of being surrounded by hundreds of people, when there was nobody really. Every object in her home, be it the bed, her side table, or cupboard, relayed an emotion. “It felt like Anshuman and I were playing in her house. The two actors play the couple in Bhavnani’s new outing as filmmaker titled, My Dog is Sick (64 minutes). “Sapna’s house was a character in the film,” feels Rajshri Deshpande, who has joined us for the video chat along with Anshuman Jha. Barely 12 hours ago, we’d been in this same room, but in a film, watching two lovers traverse isolation-the kind many of us experienced during the Coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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