"Aaba" ("Abuelo") está ambientado en una aldea remota de Arunachal Pradesh, el noreste de India. Una niña huérfana que vive con los abuelos descubre que su abuelo tiene un avanzado cáncer de pulmón y que probablemente solo le queden unas semanas de vida. Sin mucho que hacer, el abuelo pasa el resto de sus días revisando sus pertenencias y cavando su propia tumba. Pero la vida tiene giros inesperados...

"Aaba" ("Grandfather") is set in a remote village of Arunachal Pradesh in North East India. An orphan girl staying with her grandparents comes across the news of her grandfather being in the advanced stages of lung cancer and would probably survive just a few weeks. With not much to do the grandfather spends rest of his days revisiting his personal possessions and digging his own grave. But life has its own surprises...

AMAR KAUSHIK (Uttar Pradesh, INDIA, 1982) creció entre Kanpur con sus abuelos y el estado de Arunachal Pradesh, donde su abuelo trabajó para el departamento forestal del gobierno. Se graduó en Ciencias con la idea de unirse a la Indian Air Force, pero terminó dándose cuenta de que aquello no era su verdadera vocación. Su afición por viajar le hizo aceptar un trabajo en una empresa turística y acabó en Mumbai. Sin contacto previo con la industria cinematográfica, Amar pasó los siguientes nueve años construyéndose un puesto como asistente de director, director asociado y segundo director, mientras trabajaba con algunas de las mejores mentes de Bollywood. En 2016, rueda su primer cortometraje, "Aaba", basado en una historia que había escuchado en su niñez en Arunachal Pradesh. Actualmente, trabaja en su primer largometraje.

AMAR KAUSHIK (Uttar Pradesh, INDIA, 1982) grew up between Kanpur with his grandparents and the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, where his father worked in the government’s forest department. He completed his graduation in Science with the aim to join the Indian Air Force, only to slowly realize that it wasn’t his real calling. Amar’s fondness for travel made him take up a job in marketing in a firm that sold Holidays and Tours. Now, selling involved telling stories and all the story-telling inevitably led him to Mumbai. With no contact in the film industry, Amar spent the next 9 years making his way up the ladder from being an assistant director to associate director to a second unit director, while working with some of the best minds in Bollywood. In 2016, Amar made his first short fim ‘Aaba’ based on a true story that
he had heard from his mother as a child while growing up in Arunachal Pradesh. He is currently working towards his first feature film.