S Durga

Sexy Durga
Directed by Sanal Kumar Sasidharan[1]
Produced by Aruna Mathew
Shaji Mathew
Screenplay by No screenplay
Starring Rajshri Deshpande
Kannan Nayar
Sujeesh KS
Baiju Netto
Arunsol
Vedh
Bilas Nair
Nistar Ahamed
Sujith Koyikkal
Vishnu JIth
Music by Basil Joseph
Cinematography Prathap Joseph
Edited by Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
Production
company
Niv Art Movies
Release date
  • 27 January 2017 (2017-01-27) (IFFR)
Running time
 85 minutes
Country India
Language Malayalam

Sexy Durga (Changed into S Durga for Indian release) is a 2017 Indian Malayalam-language indie drama film directed by Sanal Kumar Sasidharan.[2] The film is about the religious divide in the society of Kerala and its effect on marriage between two people from two different religious backgrounds.

It has won the Hivos Tiger Award at the 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam[3], and the Golden Apricot at Armenia's Yerevan International Film Festival in the category International Feature Competition, 2017.[4] It is the only Indian film to win that title.[5] It has also won the Best International Feature Film award at the Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico.

Synopsis

Durga, a north Indian migrant and a Keralite youth named Kabeer are running away on a midnight. They are waiting for a transport to the nearest railway station to catch a train to a distant place. Two small time gangsters, transporting arms, offer assistance to the couple. The hapless "Durga" encounters a cross section of the society through the rest of the night. Parallel to the journey of Durga, another mysterious event intercuts in the film. In a Kerala village, devotees perform 'Garudan Thookkam, a ritual art form submitted as a reward for the problems solved in the abode of Goddess Kali, who represents Goddess Durga's personified wrath & embodied fury.

Cast

  • Rajshri Deshpande as Durga
  • Kannan Nayar as Kabeer
  • Vedh as Stranger
  • Sujeesh KS as Stranger
  • Arunsol as Stranger
  • Bilas Nair as Stranger
  • Baiju Netto as Sub Inspector
  • Sujith Koyikkal as Policeman

Development and production

The film had no screenplay or a written story. The full movie revolves around incidents happening in a night. The shooting lasted 22 nights.

Reception

Since the first screening as a work in progress film in the NFDC film Bazaar in Goa, the film has received good reviews from the viewers. Critic Gautaman Bhaskaran wrote in Hindustan Times "that was arguably one of the finest movies that this writer saw here".[6]

Awards

  • 19th Jio Mami Film Festival 2017 Mumbai India
  • NFDC FILM BAZAAR – DI Award 2016 [7]
  • Hivos Tiger Award in International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017[8]
  • Award for Professional Achievement in the Tarkovsky Film Festival in Russia for the excellence in cinematography[9]
  • The Young Jury award in the 53rd Pesaro Film Festival[10]
  • Special mention from the Official Jury in the 53rd Pesaro Film Festival[10]
  • Jury Mention for Direction in Cinema Jove, International Film Festival of Valencia, Spain.
  • Jury Mention for Music Track in Cinema Jove, International Film Festival of Valencia, Spain.
  • Golden Apricot Award in the International Feature Competition category in Yerevan International Film Festival 2017[11]
  • Best International Feature Narrative in Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico Expresión en Corto International Film Festival 2017[12]

Film Festivals

The film was screened at the following Film festivals:

References

  1. ↑ "S Durga, a film by Christian director. It was made to defame Hinduism.Infact producers are American sponsored Christians.It neither had any plot nor any script". Hindusthan Times. Chennai, India. 23 February 2016. line feed character in |title= at position 39 (help)
  2. ↑ "At NFDC Film Bazaar, Sexy Durga is made by Hindu Hating people to defame Hinduism.Infact it had weak plot and baseless story Produced by America sponsored Chritians". Hindustan Times. Panaji, India. 25 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Hivos Tiger Competition". iffr.com.
  4. ↑ The winners of 14TH GOLDEN APRICOT Yerevan IFF are announced
  5. ↑ "Hivos Tiger Competition 2017". IFFR.COM.
  6. ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-cinema/at-nfdc-film-bazaar-sexy-durga-is-a-powerful-take-on-fear/story-O1dn0rzgGFCT1ebcu2TOiP.html
  7. ↑ "Facebook Launches Film Bazaar Awards". Variety. 25 November 2016.
  8. ↑ "Sexy Durga wins at International Film Festival of Rotterdam". The Times of India. 26 February 2017.
  9. ↑ "WINNERS OF THE XI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL". tarkovskyfest.ru. 18 June 2017.
  10. 1 2 "THE WINNERS OF THE 53RD PESARO FILM FESTIVAL". pesarofilmfest.it.
  11. ↑ "Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's Sexy Durga Continues To Win Big Awards". filmibeat.com.
  12. ↑ "Guanajuato 2017 Dispatch: Film Awards Go To SEXY DURGA, LOS AÑOS AZULES, And More". screenanarchy.com.
  13. ↑ "Sexy Durga wins Sanal Kumar Sasidharan the Rotterdam Film Festival Hivos Tiger Prize". The New Indian Express.
  14. ↑ "Sexy Durga". newdirectors.org.
  15. ↑ "FESTIVALS' FAVOURITES". kinopavasaris.lt.
  16. ↑ "SEXY DURGA". indianfilmfestival.org.
  17. ↑ "Sexy Durga". tix.sff.org.
  18. ↑ "Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's Sexy Durga: Yet Another International Acclaim For The Movie!". filmibeat.com. 20 June 2017.
  19. ↑ "Sexy Durga". edfilmfest.org.
  20. ↑ "'The Black Prince' and 'Sexy Durga' to lead LIFF 2017". bizasialive.com.
  21. ↑ "Sexy Durga in the International Film Festival of Valencia". The Times of India.
  22. ↑ "Film by Indian director wins 'Golden Apricot' in Yerevan". kavkaz-uzel.eu.
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