sharannya

As a content creator for the Climate vertical of The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, my responsibilities included visually documenting their projects across the country. I was a single person team going to locations like Ladakh, Kutch, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Sikkim etc. to shoot (photo and video). I would then edit the content into short form social media videos. The purpose of these videos was to reach the funders and other stakeholders to present them with important data and impact of the project with visuals. The videos were made in accordance to that and as per the brief of the department.

Atithi is a cinematic exploration of food as memory, inheritance, and belonging. Through kitchens, forests, farms, and fires across India, the series follows chef Jaskrit Bhalla as she journeys through landscapes that have shaped generations of culinary wisdom. Each place reveals a way of living, how food is cultivated, preserved, fermented, balanced, and shared. Not as recipes, but as embodied knowledge passed through hands, time, and land. Moving through coastal palms, forest communities, healing kitchens, and ancestral homes, the series treats food as a medium to understand culture, ecology, and the idea of home. As Jaskrit travels deeper into these regions, she arrives not as an expert, but as an atithi—a guest—learning to listen, wait, and receive.