Q&A with director Uttera Singh!
A vibrant dark comedy with nuanced and deeply engaging social commentary, PINCH, directed and written by Uttera Singh, is a confident debut feature that shouldn’t be missed.
With saturated color, swinging rhythm, and sharp emotional edges, the film dives into the generational fault lines of truth, trauma, and tradition—all through the eyes of a young travel vlogger named Maitri, played by Uttera Singh.
Thinking it will make good content for her travel-centric YouTube channel, Maitri tags along with her mother, neighbors, trusted landlord Rajesh, and his wife to a temple during the Navratri festival. When Matri is groped by Rajesh on the way to the festival, she feels shocked and furious, and impulsively decides to take retributive steps, setting off a chain of events that rocks her tight-knit community.
The film’s lens alternates between wry observation and emotional intensity, all carried by Singh’s clear narrative trajectory and her performance. PINCH is a beautifully plotted exploration of voice, guilt, trauma, collective action and the strength it takes to stand up to power.
