Ganesh Dasari

Lamp (2025) throws you right into the middle of Ganesh Dasari’s wild imagination, and honestly, it’s not your run-of-the-mill drama. The story drifts somewhere between reality and the kind of dream you barely remember but can’t shake off the next morning. You’ve got a protagonist—a guy who’s barely holding it together, haunted by the memory of a single lamp that flickered through his childhood home. That lamp, by the way, is basically another character: it shows up in flashbacks, arguments, moments of heartbreak, and somehow, even in the dude’s wildest fantasies. The film’s got this weird, hypnotic energy. It’s always a little off-kilter—time skips around, people say things that don’t totally add up, and the world feels both familiar and totally strange. There’s family drama, sure, and plenty of mysterious strangers wandering in and out of the guy’s life. Oh, and did I mention the lamp? Because it’s everywhere. Sometimes it’s glowing and warm, sometimes it’s just barely hanging on, kind of like the lead himself. Ganesh Dasari doesn’t spoon-feed you answers. The movie leaves you with questions, and honestly, it’s kind of fun trying to piece it all together. The visuals are moody, the soundtrack is haunting, and the whole thing gets under your skin in the best way. If you’re into films that don’t play it safe and actually make you think (and maybe feel a little weird), Lamp might just be your thing.