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Award-winning film has no takers
Award-Winning Film Has No Takers. Despite garnering praise at international festivals and winning three National Awards, despite the advent of the multiplex culture, life continues to be tough for film-makers who intend to make movies on subjects considered to be low on commercial value.
Despite garnering praise at international festivals and winning three National Awards, despite the advent of the multiplex culture, life continues to be tough for film-makers who intend to make movies on subjects considered to be low on commercial value. The same is the tale of ‘Naa Bangaaru Talli’ (My Dearest Daughter).
‘Naa Bangaaru Talli’ is the Telugu feature film which received three National Awards at the 61st National Film Awards in New Delhi on Wednesday. It was after a gap of 23 years that a Telugu feature film made such a big name. Based on a close observation made by director Rajesh Touchriver and his wife Sunita Krishnan, co-founder of Prajwala, an NGO, the movie narrates the true story of a father and daughter, caught in the whirlpool of human sex trafficking.
The film won the ‘Best Regional Feature film in Telugu’, ‘Best Music’ and a ‘Special Mention’ for actress Anjali Patil. As the movie hovers around a very bold subject, the director made it clear that it couldn't show nudity and violence. "It is suitable for a family to view together with an edge-of-the-seat-thriller kind of treatment. I deliberately avoided putting in any underlying message. It is for the audience to think over and ask themselves questions after watching the film.”
The director had to mortgage his apartment to produce the movie, “Since no producer was interested much in a film like this, I mortgaged my apartment and produced it myself.”
All this while, movie buffs and the film fraternity had been cribbing that Telugu films were sidelined by the National Awards jury. But now that a feature film has made a mark, the fraternity is sedated and is not jubilating over its new success.
“The biggest encouragement we have is the reaction from the people who watched the movie and the awards. One instance is, after the screening of the film at Beijing (with Chinese subtitles), a man came up to us and said that from that day onwards, he would never take his daughter's safety for granted," shared Sunitha Krishnan.
