Four Nine and a Half, Inc. is the film company of Shashwati Talukdar and P. Kerim Friedman. Our current project is Hooch and Hamlet in Chharanagar, a documentary film about a theatre group in India. Contact us here, or see a list of all of our films.
Once nomads, the Chhara now live in an urban ghetto on the edge of a large industrial city in western India. The British labeled them a "criminal tribe" and today they are still guilty until proven innocent. Nobody will hire them. To survive, some sell illegal liquor while others engage in petty thievery. But now a group of young people are using theater to fight back against a century of prejudice and oppression.