
Glut: The Untold Story of Punjab
Punjab's drug crisis gets a number attached to it early: the film cites a claim that 73.5 percent of the state's youth are addicted, alongside alcohol sales pushing 29 crore bottles a year, among the highest per capita rates anywhere. Directors Sahil Bhagat and Smaran Sahu, working as a student production for Doodle Works and N7Films, trace how narcotics move across the India-Pakistan border and spread through the country despite the presence of the Border Security Force, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, the Narcotics Control Bureau, and the Intelligence Bureau, agencies the film frames as bystanders rather than barriers. Rahul Bose narrates, and the film brings in named experts and officials to back its case that the state is on a countdown toward collapse. Shot on Canon 7D and 550D cameras, it favors blunt statistics and direct testimony over polish, occasionally leaning into pathos but mostly staying focused on the mechanics of the trade itself.