Project timeline: 2026 · video publication year. Published as a retrospective on 23 October 2026.
Mehka Mehka brings Tia Bajpai and Prince Romal, Arian Romal, into one music-video collaboration. I directed the video, with Rasmus Johansen credited as associate director. The presence of two artists gives me a question that I find interesting: how do the images make them feel connected without asking them to become the same?
I want each person to keep a recognisable presence. At the same time, the audience should feel that the video belongs to one song and one visual world. That relationship can be built across separate images as well as a shared frame. It is something the direction has to keep thinking about throughout the piece.
From the idea to the screen
When two performers contribute to a piece, the direction needs to think about what each brings. I do not want balance to become a mechanical process of giving everyone the same number of images. The more useful question is what the song and the moment require, and how the viewer understands the relationship as it develops.
That can involve differences in distance, movement and the amount of space around a person. A close image offers one kind of connection; a wider composition offers another. I want the choices to develop the collaboration rather than turn the video into alternating presentations that never quite meet.
A shared visual world is not created by a location alone. It also depends on the treatment of performance, the progression of images and the confidence with which the video returns to its central feeling. A production can change its setting and still feel coherent if those relationships remain clear.
The work with an associate director belongs to that wider process. Creative clarity has to survive practical decisions and the movement from one part of a production to another. I value the people who help maintain that connection, because a visual intention is only useful when it can be carried through the work.
Music adds another layer. It already has a shape, and the performers have their own relationship to it. I want the direction to recognise both instead of making the images behave as if they were a separate film with a song attached afterwards. The strongest connection is one in which the visual and musical identities feel mutually necessary.
This is one of the reasons I enjoy music-video work. A short project can contain a real challenge about people, attention and the way a sequence creates a relationship. I want Mehka Mehka to show that part of my directing: bringing different contributions together with a common intention.
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