Delzad Hiwale

Bubble Gum is a coming of age story set in the small industrial town of Jamshedpur in India, about the life of a teenager at a stage when you are no longer a child, but yet to become an adult. This is a story about all of us at an age when we had the properties of a Bubble Gum: Chewable! Malleable! It swells with air when blown, it's stretchable... but beyond a point it breaks... creating a messy situation!

A reluctant 14-year-old boy from East Bengal battles fear and self-doubt to become a revolutionary leader in the fight against his British occupiers.

As big city life buzzes around them, lonely souls discover surprising sources of connection and companionship in three tales of love, loss and longing.