Redlight to Limelight follows a group of young children who are passionately weaving stories with mothers and sisters through their native video production unit called CAM ON to cultivate a meaningful change in the lives of a special community of sex workers in the brothel of Kalighat, Kolkata. Keeping aside the ghosts of their grimy reality and who they were, women and children get immersed into an incredible joy of storytelling with a burning desire to turn the brothel into a better place. Woven around the experiences of mothers and sisters, CAM ON embarks on making a new short fiction Nupur, which is often entwined between memories and actuality, and takes them through a catharsis when community premiers the film for a public screening. With joy and power of storytelling, artful voices make their grimy universe a liberating space of self assertion.
CREW:
Director: Bipuljit Basu
Producer: Nilotpal Majumdar, John Webster, Uldis Cekulis
Cinematographer: Subhadeep Dey, Mrinmoy Mondal, Rupesh Chaturbedi
Editor: Anirban Maity
Sound: Edvards Broders
Production
Taskovski Films Ltd
Director
Bipuljit Basuis
Bipuljit Basuis a Sundance DFP and IDFA grantee, emerging from India’s documentary scene with a focus on marginalized South Asian narratives. A postgraduate in Social Development, he brings socially significant, culturally resonant stories to global audiences. From 2016–2019, he also worked as an overseas distributor for Bengali cinema, promoting socially conscious films to Indian diasporas worldwide.
Bipuljit served as an Asian Jury member at the Science Film Festival, hosted by UNDP and the Goethe-Institut across 94 countries.His debut feature, Redlight to Limelight (2025), an India-Finland-Latvia coproduction, is supported by Sundance Institute, IDFA Europe, BBC Storyville, Hot Docs, YLE, Finnish Film Foundation, National Film Centre of Latvia, and others, and will premiere in the First Feature Competition at Sheffield DocFest 2025.
His short film Midnight Blues (2022) screened at NFDC Film Bazaar and Kolkata International Film Festival, winning the Popular Choice Award at SEQUIFF, San Francisco, and is distributed by the Library of Congress, USA.Selected Filmography
Redlight to Limelight (2025), Midnight Blues (2022) 
