Another View 2010 / Vihir / India 2009
14-year-old Samir spends the summer in the country with his older cousin Nachiket in a house full of relatives. While the latter are preparing for a wedding, the boys spend most of their time swimming and dreaming by an old well in the hills. Only here can they enjoy real freedom – far enough away from the grown-ups’ complex relationships, they are at leisure to focus their attention on "major” issues. In this partly autobiographical story the director betrays his essential joy in narration, visual sensibility and natural imagery.
Fourteen-year-old Samir sees his older cousin Nachiket as his example and closest friend, and spends the best summer of his life with him while staying with relations in the country. The house is preparing for a wedding, so the boys keep out of the way, mostly swimming and dreaming by an old well in the hills. Only here can they enjoy real freedom; with the stars and sunny skies above their heads, and far enough away from the grown-ups’ complex relationships, they are at leisure to focus their attention on "major” issues. After his cousin’s disappearance, Samir starts to see into Nachiket’s private world and – for the sake of his cousin and himself – tries to understand certain things. In this partly autobiographical story the director betrays his essential joy in narration, visual sensibility and natural imagery. The film was a hit at festivals in the Indian cities of Pune and Kerala, but also at the IFFs in Pusan, Rotterdam and Berlin.
120 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
/ Screenplay Girish Pandurang Kulkarni, Sati Bhav
/ Dir. of Photography Sudheer Palsane
/ Music Mangesh Dhakde
/ Editor Niraj Voralia
/ Producer Ramesh Pulapaka
/ Production Amitabh Bachchan Corp Ltd.
/ Cast Madan Deodhar, Alok Rajwade, Renuka Daftardar, Mohan Agashe, Jyoti Subhash, Sulbha Deshpande
/ Contact Amitabh Bachchan Corp Ltd.
www: www.vihir.com
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni (b. 1976, Pune, India) graduated from the Film and Television Institute in Pune and began as a director of short features and documentaries (e.g. Satyakam, Save the Children, Darshan). He impressed audiences with the short film The Grinding Machine (Girni, 2005), about a poor family whose life is changed for the best – and worst – by technology. The film was acclaimed not only in the director’s native country, but also at a number of festivals (e.g. it won the short film competition at the Fresh Film Fest 2005). His feature debut The Wild Bull (Valu, 2008) won Best Director and Best Cinematography at the Pune IFF in 2008 and was successfully screened at the Rotterdam IFF and in the Another View section at the KVIFF in 2008. His second film The Well, a tale of adolescence marked by tragedy, has enjoyed similar success.
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India
Phone: +91 222 615 445 0
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E-mail: [email protected]
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