Country: India
Year: 2012
Duration: 90'
Three young people live in a Mumbai skyscraper and are determined to make the metropolis their new home. One day, a workman arrives to paint one of the walls; the only one at home is Charu, and she is irritated that her flat mates hadn’t notified her the inconvenience. But a few minutes later, the girl finds the painter lying on the floor, unconscious. Frightened, she immediately takes him to the hospital but the next day she learns that the man, whose name she doesn’t know, has died. To Charu, it is the beginning of a voyage into the poorest quarters of the city, in search of the unknown man’s identity.
Biography
film director
Kamal K.M
Kamal K.M lives in Kerala, India, where he works as a director, screenwriter and producer. He has written and directed five shorts and two feature films, including The Chronicle of a Killing, which won the special jury prize in 2006 at the festival in Rio de Janeiro, and Alif, his debut feature film, which was presented at the 2010 Mumbai International Film Festival. He has also worked as co-screenwriter and assistant director for the famous Indian director Santosh Sivan on the films Anandabhadram (2005), Before the Rains (2007) and Prarambha (2008).
FILMOGRAFIA
Uparaant (Later, cm, 2000), Catharsis (cm, 2002), So Point Blank (cm, doc., 2002), Aaryavarth (The Land of Aryans, cm, 2003), Written on Earth (cm, 2004), Vadhakramam (The Chronicle of a Killing, cm, 2004), Natyam (The Dance Evolving, mm, doc., 2006), Alif (2010), I.D. (2012).
Declaration
film director
“We started shooting the film in real locations. The city spoke to us, through her myriad migrant peoples – people who had come here from various parts of the country in search of a better life. The process of making this film revealed unknown urban spaces to me, spaces that are screaming to be heard. Behind our protagonist, our film crew traversed these spaces engaging in the search for the identity of a nameless man, who we were trying to place in the vast anonymity of the city.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/ director, screenplay Kamal K.M fotografia/cinematography Madhu Neelakandan
montaggio/film editing B. Ajithkumar
scenografia/ production design Sunil Babu
costumi/costume design Vaishnavi Reddy
musica/music John P Varkey, Sunil Kumar
suono/sound Resul Pookkutty, Arunav Dutta
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters Geetanjali Thapa (Charu), Murari Kumar (l’imbianchino/painter), Rukshana Tabassum, Shinjini Raval, Shashi Sharma, Bachan Pachera, Alok Chaturvedi, Divyendu Sharma, Vinay Sharma, Karma Takapa
produttori/producers Resul Pookkutty, Rajeev Ravi, Madhu Neelakandan, Sunil Babu, B. Ajithkumar
produzione/production Collective Phase One
montaggio/film editing B. Ajithkumar
scenografia/ production design Sunil Babu
costumi/costume design Vaishnavi Reddy
musica/music John P Varkey, Sunil Kumar
suono/sound Resul Pookkutty, Arunav Dutta
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters Geetanjali Thapa (Charu), Murari Kumar (l’imbianchino/painter), Rukshana Tabassum, Shinjini Raval, Shashi Sharma, Bachan Pachera, Alok Chaturvedi, Divyendu Sharma, Vinay Sharma, Karma Takapa
produttori/producers Resul Pookkutty, Rajeev Ravi, Madhu Neelakandan, Sunil Babu, B. Ajithkumar
produzione/production Collective Phase One
TFF
prizes
