Gulabi (Umashree), the much-neglected, childless woman in a remote fishing community acquires new popularity when a colour TV enters her house. Gulabi Talkies traces the impact of the new media on a fishing community in Coastal Karnataka, against the backdrop of globalized business practices and gro...
Dweepa deals with the raging issue of building dams and the displacement of natives. Located in the backwaters of a dam, Sita Parvata is an island slowly submerging due to the rains. Nagi (Soundarya) and her family have to decide between accepting the government compensation and moving to safer plac...
To get the right donkey for the movie, the director travelled to Sirham, a village on top of the mountains, since Kashmir had only mules and no donkeys.
Pakeezah took nearly 14 years to shoot because of a change in relationship between Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi the director from warm to worse and then back to a compromise. Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi were married when Pakeezah was first conceived.
The movie is silent, with no dialogue whatsoever, yet it deals with a complex and realistic plot.The film is notable for its inventive recasting of the silent film form. Though shot in color and featuring incidental noise, the film does not have any dialogues.
