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Sanal Kumar Sasidharan (Photo: Sandeep Sahdev) Q. Tell us something about your latest film Chola. A. Chola is a story centring around a teenage girl who has run away to a big city with her lover. A road film, it is not political like my earlier ones, including S Durga (2017) and Unmadiyude Maranam (2017), but a personal one.
The night is dark and full of terrors - this oft-quoted line from George RR Martin's A Game of Thrones novels applies aptly to Malayalam director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's provocative new movie (Shadow of Water). Sasidharan's fifth feature examines the underside of masculinity by combining the conventions of the road movie with the horror thriller.
world-cinema Updated: Nov 22, 2015 14:19 IST One of the most gripping movies at the National Film Development of India's ongoing Film Bazaar here is Sanalkumar Sasidharan's An Off-Day Game. A classic buddy movie, it has a slow start, but gives us ample opportunity to understand that this is no ordinary adventure which five grown up men have in a desolate bungalow.
(An Off Day Game publicity still) Time-1970s. Location- A local reading room in Kerala. Camera-Start-Action. Five young men sit around a table and discuss Kafka, Camus, Freud, Marx, Kerala Politics, National politics and international politics. They argue vehemently on the merit of the recently published 'Legend of Khasak' (Khasakkinte Ithihasam) by O.V.Vijayan.
Somewhere among the crowds formed in the streets of Aruvikkara on election-day were also an unassuming young director and his little crew, cameras with them recording the shouts and slogans and the inevitable quietude that comes with moments of anxiety. Sanalkumar Sasidharan wanted the real scene he was witnessing in front of him for his new film.
Director Sasidharan's experimental, anthropological dispositif takes a group of friends, lets them drink, throws them into the jungle, and then steps back with his camera, adopting tableau to frame their cruel, animalistic and casteist behaviour. The effect is unnerving to say the least, made altogether confrontational with the presence of a lower caste woman who...
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