a 15minute assamese movie mur ghurar duronto goti the horse from heaven has qualified to be sent as an entry for the oscar awards in the short film fiction category its director maharshi tuhin kashyap saidthe film tells the story of a man who believes that he has the fastest horse in the world and wants it to win all races in the city but what he actually has is not a horse but a donkeyread alsosatyajit rays tarini khuro travels to busanever since the film was announced it made every satyajit ray fan excited and why not the storyteller directed by anant mahadevan is based on a short story by the auteur and more interestingly it brings his iconic fictional character tarini khuro to life on the big screen starring powerhousenow that we have succeeded in qualifying for the entry it is a dream come true the 27yearold director told ptithe film was made as a student project at the satyajit ray film and television institute srfti kolkata and recently won the best film award at the bengaluru international short film festival bisff an oscarqualifying film festivalunlike feature films for sending a short film to the oscars one has to win a qualified award at an oscarqualifying film festivalbisff is the only festival in india which is qualified to send its winner in the international and indian competition section for oscars in the short film fiction categorywe are happy to announce the horse from heaven directed by maharshi kashyap is the winner of the indian competition section at the bengaluru international short film festival 2022 and will qualify as an entry to the academy short competition section fiction bisff festival director anand varadaraj said in a certificatethe main crew of the film are presently final year srfti students and the film was shot mostly inside the campus and the institutes studio while some parts were shot in the outskirts of kolkatakashyap told pti that as students they know very little about the grand journey the film has to take now and are hopeful of getting help and guidance from those who are expertsthe director who has also written the films script used assams 600yearold dying storytelling art form ojapali to narrate his taleojapali performers tell stories from mythology by singing dancing using gestures and humorous conversations with the audience during their performancei felt that this form can be very interesting to express our story in the film it is a formal attempt to translate the traditional storytelling form of ojapali to the cinema he saidthe direct interaction the protagonist has with the audience of the film where songs monologues and images take the story forward is similar to the way ojapali performers tell stories the filmmaker pointed outhumour is a major component of ojapali performers and it is amply evident in the filmojapali performers refer to elements from the modern world and contextualise the stories in the space where they are performing kashyap saidnayan jyoti nath a young 10thgeneration