What If I Tell You

Teenaa Kaur / Long Documentaries / India / English/ 64 minutes / 2024

6th March 2025 | 4:20 PM | C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium

“What If I Tell You” is a personal documentary film wherein, after Breast Cancer treatment, the filmmaker is affected, but she is asked to be silent due to the fear of being gossiped about. 

As a breast cancer survivor, she wants to know what are the social consequences of surviving breast cancer. 

Why do her parents and other people around her never utter the words? She starts filming the men for choosing a prospective life partner. She wants to know what men think of her when they know she is a survivor. Does that affect them choosing her as a partner? 

The personal becomes the political in all ways.

The men represent contemporary thinking and pop culture and carry an impression of the families, Media, and Society that shapes them. The filmmaker and the man and her family have candid conversations that lead to realisations of gender roles and inequality. 

Teenaa speaks to her best friend, Nomi, to share her feelings which becomes a window to her inner world as well.

The film emerges to be a balance between the intense experiences of her as a survivor, finding the reason for breast cancer from an emotional perspective, and the conversations with prospective men from different towns in India. In between, she is realising self, looking inwards and outwards to come to terms with herself and her body. She learns Self-love.