InterviewThis will be the first Tamil film to premiere at Canada's Montreal Festival Du Nouveau Cinema.Anjana ShekarDirector Balaji Vembu Chelli’s Nilanadukkam (The Tremor) will be the first Tamil film to premiere at Canada’s 49th Montreal Festival Du Nouveau Cinema that will be held between October 7 and 18 this year. Previously, Lijo Jose Pellissery’s Malayalam film Jallikattu had premiered in this festival and the only other Indian film to make it to the festival this time is Laila Aur Satt Geet (The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs) by director Pushpendra Singh, originally made in Gojri language. “It was exciting for us to get the invite. The festival has a rich history of independent films. We have been selected under the Temps section which we hear is quite popular with the audience. We are very curious to know about their reaction,” says the 33-year-old filmmaker who hails from Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
- 10/2/2020
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
CinemaThe film will be the first-ever Tamil film to be screened at this fest.Digital NativeNilanadukkam, a Tamil film directed by debutant Balaji Vembu Chelli, will premiere at one of the oldest and prestigious film festivals in Canada, the 49th Montreal Festival Du Nouveau Cinema. This event is scheduled to happen between October 7 and 18. It is in fact a prestigious honour for the filmmaker as Nilanadukkam will be the first-ever Tamil film to be screened at this fest. According to the film’s director Balaji Vembu Chelli, Nilanadukkam is an experimental film set in Kukkal, a village 40 kilometres away from Kodaikanal. The film delves on a catastrophe and the mystery surrounding it. Speaking about the film in an interview to the Times of India, the director had said, “It revolves around a rookie photojournalist who is trying to get his first major break. The photojournalist is played by Rajeev Anand,...
- 9/29/2020
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
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