The Invisible Visible, eyeing a mid-2022 release, is narrated through the perspective of the social organisation, Koshish, which was founded by a concerned citizen in 2003. “[Mohd] Tarique was a 17-year-old student when he went to a homeless shelter to distribute food. He was devastated by what he saw. Koshish, born a few years later, has transformed thousands of lives.” Through the documentary, Khurana hopes to achieve two goals — seek state intervention, and society’s acknowledgement of “the pain of fellow humans”.

His fight for the upliftment of the disenfranchised took Khurana across India as he studied cases, heard first-hand accounts and filmed the happenings on the streets. The filmmaker, who previously helmed Saeed Mirza: The Leftist Sufi (2015), believes it is imperative to sensitise the audience to the erasure of India’s poor. “The film is a cry for more empathy-driven policies that could protect street children from trafficking, and prevent people from falling into a morass of exploitation. It should serve as a catalyst for states to set up shelters for the homeless.”