‘Namaslay’ Creators on Family, Identity and Being Told No: ‘Department Heads Took Chances on Us’

For brothers Kanish and Rish Arhant-Sudhir, family fun means collaborating to write and direct a film based on their culture, creating characters based on their own grandmother and casting their great aunt to play her. The duo’s first feature film “Namaslay” does all of this as a horror satire that ignites conversation about the appropriation