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FILM MAKER ..................................................... DOCUMENTARY FILMS 
" The Exhibits " (2004)
Synopsis Kaatha was born as the daughter of a farmer, her destiny to live life as a commoner with celebrity status as the wife of a literary giant. After the death of her husband she lives alone, at least physically, in a home built on dreams she had shared with her beloved, their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Once a widow, she handed over her home to the authorities with good intentions of making it a promised monument celebrating her husband’s life. In reality her home has metamorphosed into a museum where she pays a rent of one rupee, perhaps only to become a tenant and, at least to some, a living exhibit. The film documents the realities of aging, of past and current social issues and the colour of loneliness. Trying to (re)discover those milestones in the lives of Malayalee (people of Kerala) women, which made a sweet baby girl of the distant past just another grandmother, an exhibit of modernisation, one of the many silent victims of a much globalised face of Kerala increasingly being uprooted from its own tradition, ethos and milieux. Producer: Script and Direction: Website » rajnair.com/docu/
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FEATURE FILMS Synopsis A fallen leaf from a banyan tree afloat in the stream guides him through. He learns more of his father, the stream widens to a little river, a river, and narrows and widens until it reaches its destiny! Narayanan promised to make no mistakes and to return to his mother, a low caste woman from the south of Kerala. His father, the escapist, a congressman while Gandhiji visited Kerala, then a communist, then a bureaucrat and, a Brahmin by caste. For Narayanan, re-discovering every step of his father was like a quicksand of lust, lies and rage and much more. Does Narayanan make it without kissing a sin, stamping on landmines of the realities of present day Keralam? In search of the truth, his father, and so the man, he himself...? A Malayalam feature film based on an infamous myth. Story, Script and Direction: Production company: ..................................................... .....................................................
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..................................................... OTHER MIRABILIA ..................................................... SHORT FILMS " The Blind Mirror " Synopsis His days begin and end in Nim’s mother’s eatery, across the street where he lives, until one day he decides to either to live or leave the Kingdom, at least that is the choice he is left with… perhaps he finally made it all in a bottle, the essence of all… Story, Script and Direction: Camera and Editing: Production Executive: Production: ..................................................... " Masked dreams " Synopsis Mrs Leung is an “aamma” (janitor) in a geriatric ward of a public hospital in Hong Kong. Her day starts watching the notice board just outside her heavily secured ward showing the tally on death, newly infected and the Global tally of SARS. Mrs Leung is also stitching a scarf with the Chinese letters “hope” and “love” and “prosperity” for her daughter who will be graduating as a medical doctor in the summer of 2003... Shattered and preserved dreams of optimism during the SARS in Hong Kong. Story, Script and Direction: DP and Editing: Production: |
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