Namaslay Creators on Family, Identity and Being Told No
According to Variety, 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 of yoga in the West, proving culture is the blood that keeps the past alive. To accomplish this commentary about exploitation, the brothers reflected on their newly developed relationship with their own grandmother, who directly inspired Paati (played by Usha Krishnan).

