“Other festivals
should learn from IFFK”, opined Raghu Jagannathan, director of Tamil film ‘500&5’,
who was commenting on the festival’s support to promote new generation films
that deals with the common life. Raghu was speaking in the press meet held on
the sixth day of 17th International Film Festival of Kerala.
On talking about
the production activities of film 500&5, director detailed the difficulties
they had to face. Raghu, while replying to the question on the production of
the film, said that he is extremely thankful to the independent filmmaking revolution
in India that gave him encouragement for this film. He mentioned about the high
rental cost of a steady camera, which made them to make the camera of their own
of same specifications at a very low cost. In the same method, they developed
dolly and other equipments that is still in function and can be used for next
project as well. The story that deals with the journey of an Rs.500 currency that
passes through the hands of five different characters also reflects their
financial crunch while the production of the film, he added. Appreciating the
Kerala audience, he added that they support and encourage good films.
Kamal KM director
of ‘ID’, Amitabh Chakraborty director of ‘Cosmic Sex’, B. Ajith Kumar co-producer
and editor if ‘ID’, Geetanjali lead actress of ID and Ramesh Moorthi co-producer
of 500&5 also attended the press meet.
On his work,
Cosmic Sex, director Amitabh Chakraborty said that the film is based o his research
on the connection between sexuality and spirituality in our tradition. This practice
is still followed in India by many ones, he added. The effort and pain he had
to face to make a film on this topic of extreme sensitivity and to find actors
to enact the roles were huge, Amitabh mentioned. The director also detailed the
inflow and outflow of energy from the body and how it can be controlled by building
up a path through spirituality and sex, which is the theme of his film.
My film is only successful
if it reaches the hearts of the viewers and transmits the emotions, says Kamal
director of the competition film ID. While ID film co-producer and Editor B. Ajith
Kumar said that, the film truly reflects true vision about the society. He
added that, even though he has edited number of films, this is one of the very
few films that he would recommend to watch because of its theme and treatment. Geetanjali,
female lead in ID was happy to come and feel the enthusiastic atmosphere in
IFFK as she has heard a lot about the festival from her cast and crew. Kamal
who mentioned that IFFK was the driving force behind him to the direction
field, also said that films screened here where his primary exposure to the
world of artistic films.
All the three directors expressed their deepest gratitude towards the festival authorities for including their films.
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