Premjit Ramachandran (as Dara Okat) is a musician, filmmaker, and graphic designer based in Tiruvannamalai. Over the past 15 years, he has worked on various illustration and branding projects for noteworthy organisations such as OgilvyOne (in Mumbai and Dubai), Landor Associates (in Dubai), and Turquoise Branding (in London). His debut film, “Look Here, Kunigunda,” was officially selected for the Rome International Film Festival in 2006. After returning from London in 2007, he decided to delve deeper into the cinematic process. They started working on a feature-length video portrait of Balkrishna Doshi with his brother Bijoy Ramachandran. He lived in Wayanad for a few months in 2009 and directed nine short films on tribal culture, ritualistic temple dances, and other lesser-known folklore of the Malayali Hinterland. In 2012, he made two documentaries: one on Svaram, a musical instrument workshop and Sound Education and Therapy space in Auroville, and “Colours of Hope,” a short documentary film on a free school for underprivileged children in Nagwa, Varanasi. In 2019, ten years after the Doshi project, Bijoy and Premjit worked with B.V. Doshi again and got the opportunity to chronicle more magic, myth, and metaphor from the 92-year-old Pritzker Prize-winning architect, poet, and philosopher.
