Vartul to be screened at Osian’s-Cinefan film festival
Marathi short film Vartul (Circle) has been selected for the 11th Osians-Cinefan Film Festival being held in New Delhi during October 24-30.
“The film will be presented in the ‘In dialogue’ section,” filmmaker Santosh Ram said. Written and directed by Santosh Ram, the 19-minute long film has Damu, a 10-year old boy, as protagonist. “Damu leaves his home to buy jaggery as told by his mother and on the way meets his friend Manya. The film dwells on their travails and the premise that greed harms,” Ram said.
“Why don’t we confess about our mistakes in front of those whom we have hurt? I think childhood is a phase where we accept our mistakes and my film is about that realisation,” Ram, who has also written the story and screenplay of the film, said.
Ram has assisted in short films, corporate films and his filmography includes Hindi short films; The Fishing Net (8 minutes), Little Angels (4 minutes) and Anjaan (18 minutes).
The film’s cinematography is by Pravin Mokal, music by Shrirang Umrani and art direction is by Santosh Sankhad. Its cast includes Aswini Giri, Chinmay Patwardhan, Ajinkya Bhise and Kalian Gadgil.
Girish Kasaravalli on to his next film
Noted filmmakerGirish Kasaravalli, who recently bagged the National Award for his Gulabi Talkies, is now on to his next Kannada project. And once again he is teaming up with Umashri, who played the central character in Gulabi Talkies and won the National Award for the best actress too for that. Kasaravalli’s new film, titled Kanasugala Kudureyaneri, is based on the novel Savaari, written by Amaresh Nugadoni and tells the story of a grave-digger. To be produced by Basanth Kumar Patil, it would be Biradaar who would play the lead role. H.M.Ramachandra is the cinematographer while V.Manohar scores the music for the film.
_Unni R Nair
