Actor, writer – director Ashish Ningurkar is now days in news for being active during this past five months period of lock down. He has made few short films on social awareness, observing social distancing norms. Now, his documentary film ‘Vartul’ will be the additional attraction at the Pimpri- Chinchwad International Short film festival . Short films from different countries will be seen at this film festival, which will be held online this year in the first week of September , due to spread of corona virus.

This documentary produced by Ms. Kiran Ningurkar presents the importance of food, clothes and shelter in human life, in shortest time. The focus of this film is on the condition in which poor people live in villages, especially during monsoon. Ashish Ningurkar has written the script of this film besides direction; while the cinematography is by Siddesh Dalvi.